Factors associated with admission to a geriatric hospital in semisuburban southern Japan

Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 213-216

  Arai, Yumiko ^a   Washio, Masakazu ^b   Kudo, Kei ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR GERIATRICS AND GERONTOLOGY   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Admission; Caregiver; Caregiving; Dementia; Elderly; Institutionalization; Japan

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; GERIATRICS; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOME CARE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INSTITUTIONALIZATION; JAPAN; MALE; RISK FACTOR;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAREGIVERS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COST OF ILLNESS; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; GERIATRICS; HOSPITALS, SPECIAL; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; PATIENT ADMISSION;

EID: 0034101417     PISSN: 13231316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1819.2000.00661.x     Document Type: Article

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