Older Women's Perceptions of Independence Versus Dependence in Food-Related Work

Public Health Nursing

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 237-247

  Gustafsson, Kerstin ^a,b   Andersson, Ingegerd ^a   Andersson, Jenny ^a   Fjellström, Christina ^a   Sidenvall, Birgitta ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Community dwellers; Dependence and independence; Disability; Food related work; Older women

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ELDERLY CARE; FEAR; FEMALE; FOOD; HEALTH SERVICE; HOME CARE; HUMAN; INDEPENDENCE; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PARKINSON DISEASE; PERCEPTION; PHYSICAL CAPACITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; STROKE; WORK; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING; COOKING; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COOKERY; FEMALE; HUMANS; PARKINSON DISEASE; PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING;

EID: 0037534373     PISSN: 07371209     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.0737-1209.2003.20311.x     Document Type: Article

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