Facilitators and Barriers to Elders’ Practice of T’ai Chi:A Mind-Body, Low-Intensity Exercise

Journal of Holistic Nursing

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 238-255

  Chen, Kuei Min ^a   Snyder, Mariah ^b   Krichbaum, Kathleen ^b  

^a FOOYIN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; FITNESS; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; PATIENT EDUCATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; TAI CHI; TAIWAN;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; PATIENT EDUCATION; PHYSICAL FITNESS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; TAI JI; TAIWAN;

EID: 0035468034     PISSN: 08980101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/089801010101900305     Document Type: Article

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