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Reviews various strategies for assessing unmet health care needs that affect the quality of life of older persons & presents a comprehensive framework for assessing such needs. Needs for health services are categorized by their function, eg, as basic maintenance, supportive, rehabilitative, treatment, promotive, & preventive needs. Factors contributing to unmet needs are categorized by the types of barriers to using existing services, eg, recognition or awareness of need, knowledge about services, & availability, accessibility, affordability, & acceptability of services. Means of data collection for different types of unmet health care needs are presented. Recommendations for using the proposed framework are made to both health departments & aging services agencies.
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