Loneliness and boredom: A psychiatric disorder or late-life challenge?

Clinical Geriatrics

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 12-14

  Lantz, Melinda S ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; THYROXINE;

AGED; AGING; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BEREAVEMENT; BOREDOM; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC PAIN; COPING BEHAVIOR; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; GRIEF; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; HYPOTHYROIDISM; INDEPENDENCE; LONELINESS; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL STRESS; PENSIONER; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOCIAL SUPPORT; VOLUNTEER;

EID: 33846040641     PISSN: 10951598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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