Loneliness and nursing home admission among rural older adults

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 574-589

  Russell, Daniel W ^a   Cutrona, Carolyn E ^a   De la Mora, Arlene ^a   Wallace, Robert B ^b  

^a Iowa State University ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LONELINESS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; NURSING HOME; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COGNITION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; IOWA; LOGISTIC MODELS; LONELINESS; MALE; NURSING HOMES; PATIENT ADMISSION; PRECIPITATING FACTORS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; RURAL HEALTH; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031464054     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0882-7974.12.4.574     Document Type: Article

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