Assessing home safety in homebound older adults

Geriatric Nursing

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2003, Pages

  Tanner, Elizabeth K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CRIME; DATA ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DISASTER; EDUCATION PROGRAM; ELDERLY CARE; FALLING; FIRE; GERIATRIC CARE; HOME CARE; HUMAN; INDEPENDENCE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL PERSONNEL; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSING EDUCATION; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RESPONSIBILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SAFETY; SCORING SYSTEM; UNITED STATES; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

EID: 10744228306     PISSN: 01974572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0197-4572(03)00219-2     Document Type: Article

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