The Medicare program has largely achieved equal access to medical care services by elder and disabled Americans. The program’s significant contributions to eliminating disparities in access to medical care services for low income, black and Hispanic elders are often forgotten. Medicare is often the first and sometimes the only health insurance coverage that Latinos have ever had in their lives. Medicare provides health insurance coverage to about two mil-lion Latino elderly, about five percent of all elderly in America today. By 2025, the Census Bureau estimates that one in six elderly Americans will be Latino. Medicare’s almost universal coverage of elders has improved Latino access to medical treat-ment. Yet many Latinos have not taken fu...
With the aging of the population, access, quality and cost of end of life (EOL) care should take pri...
Objectives. We provide a detailed analysis of how the dynamics of health insurance coverage (HIC) at...
The original report on which this article is based resulted from research conducted by CAUR for the ...
Objectives: Few national studies have focused specifically on the functional status of Hispanic elde...
Includes bibliographical references (pages 77-85)The Latino population in the United States is rapid...
Background: Older Latinos with serious medical conditions such as cancer and other chronic diseases ...
BACKGROUND: Older Latinos with serious medical conditions such as cancer and other chronic diseases ...
The authors compared disability and functional limitation among elder Hispanic subgroups by using da...
From publisher: The “Hispanic Paradox” suggests that despite rates of poverty similar to African Ame...
The underprivileged Latino community currently exists as a minority in the United States , yet as t...
Background and Objectives: Hispanics are the most rapidly aging minority population in the United St...
Differential access to health care services has been observed among various groups in the United Sta...
The Latino population is one of many minority groups in the United States that consistently receives...
Latinos are considered the fastest growing and the largest ethnic minority group in the United State...
Institutes for Studies on Aging Objective: This study examined the relationship between language acc...
With the aging of the population, access, quality and cost of end of life (EOL) care should take pri...
Objectives. We provide a detailed analysis of how the dynamics of health insurance coverage (HIC) at...
The original report on which this article is based resulted from research conducted by CAUR for the ...
Objectives: Few national studies have focused specifically on the functional status of Hispanic elde...
Includes bibliographical references (pages 77-85)The Latino population in the United States is rapid...
Background: Older Latinos with serious medical conditions such as cancer and other chronic diseases ...
BACKGROUND: Older Latinos with serious medical conditions such as cancer and other chronic diseases ...
The authors compared disability and functional limitation among elder Hispanic subgroups by using da...
From publisher: The “Hispanic Paradox” suggests that despite rates of poverty similar to African Ame...
The underprivileged Latino community currently exists as a minority in the United States , yet as t...
Background and Objectives: Hispanics are the most rapidly aging minority population in the United St...
Differential access to health care services has been observed among various groups in the United Sta...
The Latino population is one of many minority groups in the United States that consistently receives...
Latinos are considered the fastest growing and the largest ethnic minority group in the United State...
Institutes for Studies on Aging Objective: This study examined the relationship between language acc...
With the aging of the population, access, quality and cost of end of life (EOL) care should take pri...
Objectives. We provide a detailed analysis of how the dynamics of health insurance coverage (HIC) at...
The original report on which this article is based resulted from research conducted by CAUR for the ...