Kotarba, JosephPerez, Norma2024-04-112024-04-112024-03Kotarba, J. A., & Perez, N. A. (2024). Middle-class retirees at the frontier of health care: An examle from the Frontera de Salud project in West Texas. Poster presented at the Health Scholar Showcase, Translational Health Research Center, San Marcos, Texas.https://hdl.handle.net/10877/18441The purpose of this study is to explore ethnographically the health concerns and health care availability among largely middle-class retirees in the far west Texas frontier. The Frontera de Salud project at UTMB has focused on assessing and ameliorating health care concerns among working-class and indigenous residents in the Big Bend area, but students and faculty have also begun mapping the shifting demographic and socio-cultural contours of health and health care in the entire population.Image1 page1 file (.pdf)enretireeshealthcareMiddle-Class Retirees at the Frontier of Health Care: An Example from the Frontera de Salud Project in West TexasPoster