Oral health-related quality of life of a population of medically compromised elderly people

Community Dental Health

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 90-97

  Locker, David ^a   Matear, David ^a   Stephens, Marlene ^a   Jokovic, Aleksandra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Elderly; Medically compromised; Oral health; Oral health related quality of life; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CANADA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INCOME; INTERVIEW; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; MARRIAGE; MASTICATION; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; MORALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERIODONTAL DISEASE; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SATISFACTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; XEROSTOMIA;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INCOME; INTERVIEWS; LINEAR MODELS; LONG-TERM CARE; MALE; MARITAL STATUS; MASTICATION; MIDDLE AGED; MORALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ONTARIO; ORAL HEALTH; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TOOTH LOSS; XEROSTOMIA;

EID: 0036615067     PISSN: 0265539X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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