Promoting declines in the prevalence of late-life disability: Comparisons of three potentially high-impact interventions

Milbank Quarterly

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 493-520

  Freedman, Vicki A ^a   Hodgson, Nancy ^b   Lynn, Joanne ^b   Spillman, Brenda C ^b   Waidmann, Timothy ^b   Wilkinson, Anne M ^b   Wolf, Douglas A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Aging; Disability; Interventions

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DEPRESSION; DISABLED PERSON; EXERCISE; FALLING; FRAIL ELDERLY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; DEPRESSION; DISABLED PERSONS; EXERCISE; FRAIL ELDERLY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; PREVALENCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RISK FACTORS; RISK REDUCTION BEHAVIOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33747849821     PISSN: 0887378X     EISSN: 14680009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0009.2006.00456.x     Document Type: Review

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