Promoting mental health and wellbeing amongst housebound older people

Quality in Ageing and Older Adults

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 32-46

  Cotterill, Lesley ^a   Taylor, Diane ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Housebound older people; Information; Mental health; Modernisation programme; Wellbeing

Indexed keywords

EID: 20444388750     PISSN: 14717794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14717794200100021     Document Type: Article

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