{"title":"Health care seeking behavior of the elderly: an empirical investigation.","authors":"T L Powers, I F Trawick","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The elderly population represents an increasingly large market for health care services and has typically been seen as a homogeneous market segment. This research indicates that the elderly market is in fact a very heterogeneous market which can be segmented by demographic and behavioral characteristics.</p>","PeriodicalId":79661,"journal":{"name":"Journal of ambulatory care marketing","volume":"5 1","pages":"49-57"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1992-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of ambulatory care marketing","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The elderly population represents an increasingly large market for health care services and has typically been seen as a homogeneous market segment. This research indicates that the elderly market is in fact a very heterogeneous market which can be segmented by demographic and behavioral characteristics.