Limitations in activities of daily living: Towards a better understanding of subthreshold mental disorders in old age

Comprehensive Psychiatry

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 19-25

  Wilms, H U ^a,b   Kanowski, S ^a,b   Baltes, M M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENTAL DISEASE; PHYSICAL DISEASE;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BERLIN; COMORBIDITY; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0034093403     PISSN: 0010440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-440X(00)80004-8     Document Type: Article

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