Client and responder perceptions of a personal emergency response system: Lifeline

Home Health Care Services Quarterly

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1-21

  Fallis, Wendy M ^a   Silverthorne, Diane ^b   Franklin, Jonathon ^c   McClement, Susan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b Victoria General Hospital Winnipeg   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Customer service; Elderly; Personal response; Responders; Satisfaction

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CANADA; CONSUMER; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HOME CARE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONSUMER SATISFACTION; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HOME CARE SERVICES; HUMANS; MALE; MANITOBA; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 34548316753     PISSN: 01621424     EISSN: 15450856     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J027v26n03_01     Document Type: Article

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