Nursing home placement: Perspectives of community-dwelling older persons

Journal of Clinical Nursing

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 911-917

  Tse, Mimi M Y ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Community; Nurses; Nursing; Nursing home; Older persons

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FEMALE; HOME FOR THE AGED; HONG KONG; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING HOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FEMALE; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HONG KONG; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING HOMES;

EID: 34247367225     PISSN: 09621067     EISSN: 13652702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2702.2006.01833.x     Document Type: Article

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