Changes in self-rated health, disability and contact with services in a very elderly cohort: A 6-year follow-up study

Age and Ageing

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 23-33

  Dening, Tom R ^a   Chi, Lin Yang ^b   Brayne, Carol ^b   Huppert, Felicia A ^b   Paykel, Eugene S ^b   O'Connor, Daniel W ^c  

^a FULBOURN HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Community services; Dementia; Depression; Elderly people; Self rated health

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISABILITY; FEMALE; FITNESS; FOLLOW UP; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL WELFARE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TIME; UNITED KINGDOM; URBAN POPULATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSION; DISABILITY EVALUATION; ENGLAND; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRAIL ELDERLY; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH SERVICES FOR THE AGED; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; MENTAL STATUS SCHEDULE; ODDS RATIO; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SICK ROLE;

EID: 0031973341     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/27.1.23     Document Type: Article

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