Empowering older women: Strategies to enhance their health and health care

JOGNN - Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, and Neonatal Nursing

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 664-670

  Roberts, Susan Jo ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Communication; Empowerment; Women

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMMUNITY CARE; COPING BEHAVIOR; DIABETES MELLITUS; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ELDERLY CARE; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NURSE; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIALIZATION; WRITING; AGED; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN RELATION; LIFESTYLE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; STANDARD; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUALITY OF LIFE; UNITED STATES; WOMEN'S HEALTH; WOMEN'S HEALTH SERVICES;

EID: 16544362732     PISSN: 08842175     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0884217504268872     Document Type: Article

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