Nutritional status, functional ability and food habits of institutionalised and non-institutionalised elderly people in Morogoro region, Tanzania

East African Medical Journal

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 248-253

  Nyaruhucha, C N M ^a   Msuya, J M ^a   Matrida, E ^a  

^a SOKOINE UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HOME FOR THE AGED; HOUSING; HUMAN; INCOME; INSTITUTIONALIZATION; MALE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; STATISTICS; TANZANIA;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ANTHROPOMETRY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FOOD HABITS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HOUSING; HUMANS; INCOME; INSTITUTIONALIZATION; MALE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; TANZANIA;

EID: 16544382008     PISSN: 0012835X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4314/eamj.v81i5.9168     Document Type: Review

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