Assessment of the functional status of elderly subjects in Qassim Region, Saudi Arabia

The Journal of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health

Volumn 117, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 313-318

  Al Mahadi, Mohammed A ^a   Elzubier, Ahmed G ^b  

^a MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Saudi Arabia)

^b IMAM ABDULRAHMAN BIN FAISAL UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Elderly; functional status

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERVIEW; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCUPATION; SAUDI ARABIA; SENESCENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; SAUDI ARABIA; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 0031405380     PISSN: 14664240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/146642409711700509     Document Type: Article

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