Access to Health Care Part 3: Older Adults This report examines access to health care for elderly adults, 65 years of age and over in the United States for 1993. Access indicators include having a regular source of care, place of care, main reason for no usual source of care, unmet health care needs, and use of clinical and preventive services. Sociodemographic characteristics examined include sex, age, race, place of residence, income, health status, and health insurance coverage. Ninety-one percent of elderly persons
with a regular source of care went to a private doctor as their usual place of care.
Overall only 1 percent of the elderly named the emergency room as their regular place of
care. Females were more likely to have a private doctor as their regular source of care
than were males. Only 78 percent of black persons reported a private doctor as their
regular source of care compared with 93 percent of white persons with a regular source of
care. Keywords: Access to care, usual source of care, reason for no usual source of care, unmet need, clinical and preventive services, health insurance This report can be purchased from the Government Printing Office (GPO). GPO stock number 017-022-01381-9, price: $3.75
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