Factors associated with life space among community-living rural elders in Japan

Public Health Nursing

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 324-331

  Murata, Chiyoe ^a   Kondo, Takaaki ^b   Tamakoski, Koji ^c   Yatsuya, Hiroshi ^c   Toyoshima, Hideaki ^c  

^a HAMAMATSU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Activities of daily living; Disability; Elderly; Environment; Rural health

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RURAL HEALTH; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 33745612074     PISSN: 07371209     EISSN: 15251446     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1446.2006.00568.x     Document Type: Article

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