Vulnerable elders: When it is no longer safe to live alone

JAMA

Volumn 298, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1448-1450

  Dyer, Carmel Bitondo ^a,b   Pickens, Sabrina ^a   Burnett, Jason ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING; DECISION MAKING; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ELDERLY CARE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE NEED; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SAFETY; SELF CARE; SELF NEGLECT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34748905564     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.298.12.1448     Document Type: Note

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