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Retirement Financial Planning among Black Professionals.
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Richardson, Virginia; Kilty, Keith M. – Gerontologist, 1989
Compared extent and patterns of financial planning among 234 Black professionals with those of White professionals. Data revealed similar expectations of continued income, supplementing finances by working in another occupation, pension income, and dependency on spouses for income. Although Blacks invested less in stocks and bonds and bank…
Descriptors: Blacks, Comparative Analysis, Preretirement Education, Professional Personnel
Racial/Ethnic Differences in the Relationship between the Use of Health Care Services and Functional Disability: The Health and Retirement Study (1992-2004)
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Bowen, Mary Elizabeth; Gonzalez, Hector M. – Gerontologist, 2008
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine racial/ethnic differences in the relationship between functional disability and the use of health care services in a nationally representative sample of older adults by using the Andersen behavioral model of health services utilization. Design and Methods: The study used 12 years of longitudinal…
Descriptors: Health Services, Health Needs, Retirement, Physicians
Ethnicity, Gender, and Depressive Symptoms in Older Workers.
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Fernandez, Maria E.; Mutran, Elizabeth J.; Reitzes, Donald C.; Sudha, S. – Gerontologist, 1998
Used data drawn from a group of 58- to 64-year-old African-African men and women (n=128) and White men and women (n=621) in a North Carolina metropolitan area to examine a casual model for depressive symptomatology. Presents and analyzes results of the study. (MKA)
Descriptors: Blacks, Cultural Differences, Depression (Psychology), Employment