Home modification: How to help patients make their homes safer and more accessible as their abilities change

American Journal of Nursing

Volumn 106, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 54-63

  McCullagh, Marjorie Cook ^a  

^a NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; CONSTRUCTION WORK AND ARCHITECTURAL PHENOMENA; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DISABLED PERSON; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; FALLING; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEARING LOSS; HOME ACCIDENT; HOME CARE; HOMEBOUND PATIENT; HOUSING; HUMAN; INTERNET; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; METHODOLOGY; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NURSING ASSESSMENT; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY; SOMATOSENSORY DISORDER; STANDARD; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; WALKING DIFFICULTY;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ACCIDENTS, HOME; ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; ARCHITECTURAL ACCESSIBILITY; DISABLED PERSONS; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEARING LOSS; HOME CARE SERVICES; HOMEBOUND PERSONS; HOUSING; HUMANS; INTERNET; MOBILITY LIMITATION; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NURSING ASSESSMENT; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY MANAGEMENT; SOMATOSENSORY DISORDERS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33749448187     PISSN: 0002936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000446-200610000-00033     Document Type: Review

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