Factors related to the desire to enter a nursing home among elderly japanese

Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 77-83

  Sauvaget, Catherine ^a   Tsuji, Ichiro ^b   Fukao, Akira ^a   Hisamichi, Shigeru ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Desire; Elderly; Japan; Nursing home placement

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FAMILY; FEMALE; HOME FOR THE AGED; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING HOME; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DECISION MAKING; FAMILY; FEMALE; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; JAPAN; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING HOMES;

EID: 37849188701     PISSN: 09175040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2188/jea.7.77     Document Type: Article

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