Unmet Need for Personal Assistance Services: Estimating the Shortfall in Hours of Help and Adverse Consequences

Journals of Gerontology - Series B Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2004, Pages

  LaPlante, Mitchell P ^a,b   Kaye, H Stephen ^a   Kang, Taewoon ^a   Harrington, Charlene ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Institute for Health and Aging   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASSISTED LIVING FACILITY; BURN; COST; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DATA ANALYSIS; DEHYDRATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FALLING; FEMALE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INCOME; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ORGANIZATION; PERSONAL ASSISTANCE SERVICE; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

EID: 1542313840     PISSN: 10795014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/geronb/59.2.S98     Document Type: Article

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