Patterns and predictors of nursing home placement over 14 years: Dubbo study of elderly Australians

Australasian Journal on Ageing

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 169-173

  McCallum, John ^a   Simons, Leon A ^a,b   Simons, Judith ^b   Friedlander, Yechiel ^c  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cohort study; Dementia; Elderly; Nursing home placement

Indexed keywords

EID: 31744448375     PISSN: 14406381     EISSN: 17416612     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-6612.2005.00116.x     Document Type: Article

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