When environmental re-design creates autonomy hindrance: Learning from the investigation of local detail in the study of institutional relocation

Clinical Gerontologist

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 15-30

  Moye, Jennifer ^a,b   Domingos, Kevin ^a,b   Pittman, Robert ^a   Beal, Lorraine ^a   Williams, Constance ^b  

^a Brockton W Roxbury Dept Vet A   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDEPENDENCE; INSTITUTIONALIZATION; INTERVIEW; MALE;

EID: 0030877245     PISSN: 07317115     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J018v18n01_03     Document Type: Article

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