The links between health-related behaviors and life satisfaction in elderly individuals who prefer institutional living

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Inal, Serap ^a   Subasi, Feryal ^b   Ay, Serap M ^b   Hayran, Osman ^c  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b MARMARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c MARMARA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HOME FOR THE AGED; HUMAN; INCOME; INTERVIEW; LEISURE; LIFE SATISFACTION; MALE; MARRIAGE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PREDICTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCORING SYSTEM; SOCIAL ASPECT; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; SATISFACTION; SOCIAL CLASS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TRENDS; TURKEY; URBAN POPULATION; VERY ELDERLY;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; LEISURE ACTIVITIES; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL CLASS; TURKEY; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 33847694760     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-7-30     Document Type: Article

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