Impact of mental health on daily living activities of Japanese elderly

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 457-462

  Kondo, Naoki ^a,b   Kazama, Mari ^c   Suzuki, Kohta ^a   Yamagata, Zentaro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI   (Japan)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c MEJIRO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Activities of daily living; Aged; Depression; Disability; Japan; Mental health; Social activities

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTELLECT; JAPANESE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; JAPAN; MENTAL HEALTH; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ISOLATION;

EID: 42749087719     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2007.12.007     Document Type: Article

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