Mortality among elderly receiving long-term care: A longitudinal cohort study

Aging Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 503-511

  Jakobsson, Ulf ^a   Hallberg, Ingalill Rahm ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Activities of daily living; Aged; Long term care; Morbidity; Mortality

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER DISEASE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COHORT ANALYSIS; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GERIATRIC CARE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UROGENITAL TRACT DISEASE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONG-TERM CARE; LONGEVITY; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MORTALITY; NURSING CARE; PUBLIC ASSISTANCE; SURVIVAL RATE; SWEDEN;

EID: 33847665619     PISSN: 15940667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03324851     Document Type: Article

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