Sociocultural Differences between American-born and West Indian-born Elderly Blacks : A Comparative Study of Health and Social Service Use (Garland Studies on the Elderly in America)

Sociocultural differences between elderly American-born and West Indian-born Blacks: A comparative study o f health and social service use, represents an important contribution to the available knowledge on Black elderly and the diversity found within the Black community. It is an outgrowth of a larger scale study of older people in New York City—Growing older in New York in the 1990s (M.Cantor and B. Gurland, principal investigators).