The Impact of Experience of Discrimination on Social and Health Care Service Use and Satisfaction among Racial and Ethnic Minority Family Caregivers of Older Adult Relatives in Canada

Relatively little is known about the relationships between satisfaction with services, utilizations of social and health care services and caregivers’ experiences of discrimination in Canada. Hence, this study is guided by the following research questions:

1) how do experiences of discrimination in daily life impact social and health care service use among racial and ethnic minority family caregivers of older adults? 

2) how do the experiences of discrimination in social and health care settings impact overall satisfaction with social and health care services among minority family caregivers of older adult relatives? 

3) how do caregivers and care recipients’ social locations, needs, and enabling factors impact family caregivers’ unmet needs?