Alternative health care utilisation among seniors

dc.contributor.author	Wolfe, Nuala Katherine	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2024-08-15T20:19:00Z
dc.date.available	2024-08-15T20:19:00Z
dc.date.copyright	2000	en_US
dc.date.issued	2000
dc.degree.department	Department of Anthropology	en_US
dc.degree.level	Master of Arts M.A.	en
dc.description.abstract	The increasing use of alternative health care practices in the senior population has gone largely unnoticed in the current literature. For the general population, use of alternative therapies has been reported to occur as a result of physician dissatisfaction or as a concomitant of a changing ideology toward the body, mind and health care. In this qualitative study, fifteen seniors over the age of 65 were interviewed in Victoria, British Columbia to gain an understanding of why seniors use alternative therapies. This study focuses on five alternative health care practices including chiropractic, acupuncture, traditional Chinese medicine, naturopathy and herbology. The results indicate negative experiences with the medical system rather than with the family physician and a belief in responsibility for one's own health as factors for older adults turning to alternative therapies. It is concluded that seniors perceive the use of alternative therapies as a positive event both physically and mentally.
dc.format.extent	96 pages
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/1828/20223
dc.rights	Available to the World Wide Web	en_US
dc.title	Alternative health care utilisation among seniors	en_US
dc.type	Thesis	en_US

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