Factors influencing the use of adult day care by individuals with alzheimer’s disease: A multivariate examination of the california alzheimer’s disease diagnostic and treatment center program

Home Health Care Services Quarterly

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 53-69

  Douglass, Carolinda ^a   Visconti, Charles ^b  

^a NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b School of Allied Health Professions   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; DAY CARE; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NURSING; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; CALIFORNIA; DAY CARE; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

EID: 0031609028     PISSN: 01621424     EISSN: 15450856     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J027v17n02_04     Document Type: Article

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