PMID: 11925362Apr 2, 2002Paper

Accessibility of health and social services to immigrant elders: the Islington Study

The British Journal of Psychiatry : the Journal of Mental Science
G LivingstonC Katona

Abstract

Numbers of immigrant elders are increasing and it is unclear whether they can access services. To examine service utilisation of older immigrants compared with their UK-born counterparts and relate it to health difficulties. Method Cross-sectional study in inner London measuring service use, mental health and disability. A total of 1085 people aged > or = 65 years were interviewed. Independent predictors of contact with a general practitioner included being born in Cyprus. Cypriots were the only immigrant population to report significantly more somatic symptoms than those born in the UK (P=0.005). Africans and Caribbeans used day care and other social services most frequently. Immigrants could access services. Africans and Caribbeans appear to have poorer physical health and thus have greater contact with services. Cypriots who experience depression may present with prominent somatic symptoms. This is likely to be due to a different idiom of distress.

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