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a. age, race, socioeconomic status, and educational level. b. self-advocacy, stroke knowledge, and ability to pay. c. medical diagnostic complexity, treatment setting, hospital location, and length of stay. d. length of stay, ability to pay, and availability of rehabilitative specialists. 3. Reasons for lower participation by older African Americans in audiology and speechlanguage pathology services include mistrust, lack of adequate funding, and a. fatalism. b. belief in faith healing. c. poor motivation for rehabilitation. d. lack of knowledge of potential benefits. e. reliance on communitybased, nonprofessional services. 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. 5. Benefits-including increased access for older African Americans to audiology and speechlanguage pathology services; development of culturally appropriate interventions; increased knowledge of disease prevention, remediation, and research; and opportunities to expand the scientific bases of the discipline-will accrue from a. community-based audiology and speech-language pathology outreach. b. home health audiology and speech-language pathology outreach.