Alzheimer's Residents' Cognitive and Functional Measures: Special and Traditional Care Unit Comparison

Clinical Nursing Research

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1994, Pages 27-41

  Swanson, Elizabeth A ^a   Maas, Meridean L ^a   Buckwalter, Kathleen C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HOSPITAL SUBDIVISIONS AND COMPONENTS; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING; NURSING HOME; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; COGNITION; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HOSPITAL UNITS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING HOMES;

EID: 0028373861     PISSN: 10547738     EISSN: 15523799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/105477389400300104     Document Type: Article

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