Ageing styles: Subjective well-being and somatic complaints in inpatients aged ≥ 60 years

Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics

Volumn 72, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 324-332

  Schneider, Gudrun ^a   Driesch, Georg ^a   Kruse, Andreas ^b   Wachter, Michael ^b   Nehen, Hans Georg ^c   Heuft, Gereon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c ELISABETH KRANKENHAUS ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ageing styles; Elderly; Empirical study; Impairment score (IS); Old age; Somatization; Well being, subjective

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR SYMPTOM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVALUATION; EXHAUSTION; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MENTAL HEALTH; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SELF REPORT; SENESCENCE; WELLBEING;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS;

EID: 0142025413     PISSN: 00333190     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000073029     Document Type: Article

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