Nguyen The findings draw attention to the unique help-seeking behaviors of older Filipino and Korean Americans. Lower rates of physician contacts may mean accumulating unmet physical needs that may exacerbate mental health concerns. Furthermore, fewer contacts with a physician present fewer opportunities to identify and address mental health concerns. Pescosolido and Boyer’s network episodic model16 asserts that the type of mental health service used depends on a variety of social factors. Rather than seeing a physician for their mental health needs, older Filipino and Korean Americans may seek care and support from other sources, if at all. Future research should examine where older Filipino and Korean Americans receive care, and what culturally congruent models of physical and mental health care would be the most appropriate. Use of the CHIS 2001 poses some limitations. While the data include mental health-related measures, the data were collected nearly a decade ago, which may limit the inferences for an evolving health care system. Second, the existing data focus primarily on physical health conditions, so informa- tion on specific mental health conditions is not available. Finally, the small raw sample sizes for Asian Americans result in less precise variance estimation, which may result in an underestimate of differences. Despite limitations, this study makes an important contribution to the research by the differences among older Asian American groups. Knowing how the perception of mental health need affects general physician use allows health and mental health professionals to access to mental health care. As mental health needs do not increase physi- cian contact for all Asian American groups, the identification and treatment of mental health concerns need to be adapted for different groups. 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