Development of an ADL instrument targeting elderly persons with age-related macular degeneration

Disability and Rehabilitation

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 69-79

  Dahlin Ivanoff, S ^a   Sonn, U ^a   Svensson, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DETERIORATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELDERLY CARE; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH STATUS; HOME CARE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; NOTE; OPHTHALMOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TREATMENT PLANNING; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL DISORDER; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MALE; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; SWEDEN; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 0035915691     PISSN: 09638288     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/096382801750058152     Document Type: Note

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