Geriatric Nursing
Volume 26, Issue 4 , Pages 229-232 , July 2005

Cafecitos and Telenovelas: Culturally Competent Interventions to Facilitate Mexican American Families’ Decisions to Use Home Care Services

  • Janice D. Crist, RN, PhD

      Affiliations

    • JANICE D. CRIST, RN, PhD, is an assistant professor in the College of Nursing at the University of Arizona, Tucson.

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 This article is based on a presentation given at the 18th NGNA National Convention, Gerontological Nursing: United in the Art of Caring, Houston, October 10–12, 2003.

PII: S0197-4572(05)00129-1

doi: 10.1016/j.gerinurse.2005.05.004

Geriatric Nursing
Volume 26, Issue 4 , Pages 229-232 , July 2005