Preventive home visits to older people in Denmark: Why, how, by whom, and when?

Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 209-216

  Vass, Mikkel ^a   Avlund, Kirsten ^a   Hendriksen, Carsten ^a   Philipson, Lotte ^b   Riis, Povl ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b Danish Ministry of Social Affairs   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Community health care; Eduction; Functional decline; Home visits; Municipality organisation; Older people

Indexed keywords

AGED; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLASSIFICATION; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DENMARK; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVIEW;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHRONIC DISEASE; DENMARK; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HOUSE CALLS; HUMANS; NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE TEAM;

EID: 36248993952     PISSN: 09486704     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00391-007-0470-2     Document Type: Review

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