Quality of life in the elderly with epilepsy

Epilepsy and Behavior

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-3

  Devinsky, Orrin ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

AGED; AGING; ANXIETY DISORDER; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; DEMENTIA; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; EDITORIAL; ELDERLY CARE; EPILEPSY; FALLING; FAMILY LIFE; FEAR; FRACTURE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; IMMOBILIZATION; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEMORY DISORDER; MOBILIZATION; MOOD DISORDER; MOTIVATION; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSING HOME; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PREVALENCE; PRODUCTIVITY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SIDE EFFECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STROKE; SYNCOPE; UNITED STATES; WELLBEING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EPILEPSY; HEALTH SERVICES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; QUALITY OF LIFE;

EID: 12144271289     PISSN: 15255050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2004.09.011     Document Type: Editorial

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