Functional limitations to daily living tasks in the aged: A focus group analysis

Human Factors

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 111-125

  Rogers, Wendy A ^a,c   Meyer, Beth ^b   Walker, Neff ^b   Fisk, Arthur D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c University of Georgia ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GERIATRICS; HUMAN REACTION TIME; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY;

DAILY LIVING TASKS; FUNCTIONAL LIMITATIONS;

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN FACTORS RESEARCH; LEISURE; MALE; MOBILIZATION; NORMAL HUMAN; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMAN ENGINEERING; HUMANS; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION;

EID: 0032031931     PISSN: 00187208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1518/001872098779480613     Document Type: Article

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