The aging experience of Chinese and Caribbean seniors

This study focuses on Chinese and services and programs critical for Caribbean seniors who are the continued independence and The Aging residents of buildings managed by well-being of seniors. [...] Issue Using a three-staged approach for The findings have broader policy Chinese/Caribbean selecting respondents, nine implications for the pattern of Seniors and the Use of support service use for other buildings were chosen for the ethnoracial minority seniors in Support Services Chinese sample and five buildings other metropolitan areas. [...] The high concentration of Chinese Furthermore, past studies have This study hypothesized that seniors in the TCHC buildings focused primarily on the structural factors beyond enabled them to become part of a relationship between individual individual characteristics may social network and communication characteristics (e.g., sex, income, affect the pattern of support “grapevine.” The social networ [...] Proximity to an limited the opportunity for the percent),and where the depth and development of a range of density of social networks were institutionally complete institutions that could potentially less developed, exhibited patterns community helped solidify social provide services to its members similar to those of the Caribbean links and connections that formed along a more or less complete sa [...] As a not provide the critical mass of between a high concentration of result, they did not express the clients that stores, organizations, or Chinese seniors, the existence of same level of confidence as was service providers need in order to an institutionally complete observed for the Chinese seniors.