Health promotion for frail older home care clients

Journal of Advanced Nursing

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 381-395

  Markle Reid, Maureen ^a   Weir, Robin ^a   Browne, Gina ^a,b   Roberts, Jacqueline ^a   Gafni, Amiram ^a   Henderson, Sandra ^c  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c HSC 3N25F ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

Center for Epidemiological Studies in Depression Scale; Health economics; Health promotion; Home care; Nursing; Older people; Randomized controlled trial; Research report; SF 36

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; ECONOMICS; EMOTION; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH STATUS; HOME CARE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; METHODOLOGY; PATIENT; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DEPRESSION; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH STATUS; HOME NURSING; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PATIENT DROPOUTS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 33646045019     PISSN: 03092402     EISSN: 13652648     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2648.2006.03817.x     Document Type: Article

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