The Developmentally Disabled Elderly in Canada: Access to Health Care and Social Services (open access)

The Developmentally Disabled Elderly in Canada: Access to Health Care and Social Services

The accessibility, predictors, and use of health care and social services among developmentally disabled elderly adults in Canada were examined using a nationally representative social survey. The first research hypothesis is that the independent variables will contribute significantly to the prediction of the dependent variables. A second hypothesis is that the slope of any given independent variable will not equal zero. The results of this research show that the illness (need) variables are the most predictive correlate of the utilization of health care and social services. The predisposing variables have secondary explanatory power, with the enabling variables accounting for the least amount of variance. The hypotheses were tested by step-wise multiple regression analysis using SPSS-X.
Date: August 1992
Creator: Easterling, Calvin Henry
System: The UNT Digital Library