Access & Utilization

Accessibility to health care could be one the problems faced by the recently immigrant elderly:

• lack of knowledge of the availability of health care
• lack of health insurance
• transportation – cannot use public transportation, cannot drive, dependent on their children
• monetary – cost of treatment, expensive, most are dependent on their children
• language – unable to communicate in English, lack of translation; inability to read medication labels in English
• abandonment by adult children after immigration
• learned helplessness
• not wanting to burden their children financially