Oral Care and the Elderly
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4. Community-based outreach is a strategy based on the assumption that a. older African Americans are disinterested in their own health care. b. older African Americans are reluctant to leave their communities. c. it is impossible to fully understand an individual without knowing his or her community. d. it is impossible to effectively deliver audiology and speechlanguage pathology services to older African Americans, except within their communities.
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