Using gender and life course frameworks attuned to overlapping roles and statuses, this exploratory case study highlights the experiences of older, rural female veterans in Utah with accessing Veterans Administration and other healthcare. Based on three focus groups with 22 women, findings show that these veterans experienced similar healthcare access obstacles to female veterans in other contexts. Most also experienced invisibility and discrimination in the military, which carried over as they became veterans. However, while these older, rural women veterans voiced new concerns about their own healthcare in later life course stages, they also described extensive experience with coordination of services and advocacy for other veterans, family and rural community members. Thus, these women veterans acted as healthcare advocates in a complex, bureaucratic, strained system. Feeling largely excluded from the male veterans' networks and organizations, they perceived the need to create new networks that could assist veterans in need.

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犹他州农村老年退伍军人中的医疗保健机会*

该探索性案例研究使用了适应于角色和地位重叠的性别和生活历程框架，着重介绍了犹他州农村老年退伍军人的经验，他们可以使用退伍军人管理局和其他医疗机构。根据由22名妇女组成的三个焦点小组的调查结果，这些退伍军人在其他情况下也经历了类似的医疗保健障碍，这对女退伍军人是一个障碍。大多数人在军队中也经历过隐形和歧视，而当他们成为退伍军人时，这种歧视就一直延续下去。然而，尽管这些年长的农村妇女退伍军人在人生后期阶段对自己的医疗保健表示了新的担忧，但他们还描述了在协调服务和为其他退伍军人，家庭和农村社区成员进行宣传方面的丰富经验。因此，这些退伍军人在复杂，官僚，紧张的制度。他们感到自己基本上被男性退伍军人网络和组织所排斥，因此他们认为有必要建立新的网络来帮助有需要的退伍军人。