The Correlate of Religion Involvement and Formal Service Use Among Community-Dwelling Elders: An Explorative Case of Naturally Occurring Retirement Community

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Spirituality and religion have become important topics in social work practice, especially in work with the terminally ill and the elderly. Understanding the impact of religion on formal service use gives insight to the significance of spirituality and religion in developing and delivering services to elderly persons. This study was to use the survey data conducted in a naturally occurring retirement community (NORC). The results indicate that attending religious services has an important negative relationship with formal service use after controlling all demographic and social factors. This study contributes to the growing research literature on older adults service use and deepens the perception of religion and attending religion services on the issue of spirituality and aging.View full textDownload full textKEYWORDSNORC, religion involvement, service useRelated var addthis_config = { ui_cobrand: "Taylor & Francis Online", services_compact: "citeulike,netvibes,twitter,technorati,delicious,linkedin,facebook,stumbleupon,digg,google,more", pubid: "ra-4dff56cd6bb1830b" }; Add to shortlist Link Permalink http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15426432.2010.495604