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Author Kunitz, Stephen J.

Title Navajo aging : the transition from family to institutional support / Stephen J. Kunitz, Jerrold E. Levy ; with Tracy Andrews [and others] ; photographs by Jonathan L. Bayer.

Imprint Tucson : University of Arizona Press, ©1991.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  362.19897 K96N    Check Shelf
Description viii, 191 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (173-186) and index.
Contents Introduction -- The changing contexts of aging -- Social organization, morbidity, and hospital use -- Depression -- The prevalence of diagnosed hypertension -- Mortality -- Perspectives on caring for the elderly -- Epilogue.
Summary Studies the relationship between health status, health care utilization, and the family organization of a sample of Navajos over age sixty-five, paying special attention to the question of whether social support or the lack thereof has a measurable influence on their health status.
Subject Indians of North America. (OCoLC)fst00969633
Indians, North American (DNLM)D007198
Social Change (DNLM)D012922
Social change.
Indians of North America.
Social change. (OCoLC)fst01122310
Local Subject Indigenous peoples, North American (DNLM)D007198
Subject Older Navajo Indians -- Health and hygiene.
Local Subject Indigenous peoples -- North America.
Subject Older people.
Aged (DNLM)D000368
Health Status (DNLM)D006304
Older people. (OCoLC)fst01199093
Added Author Levy, Jerrold E., 1930-2002.
Bayer, Jonathan, 1936-
ISBN 0816512604 (acid-free paper)
9780816512607 (acid-free paper)
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