Depression and alcohol use among the Dutch residential home elderly: Is there a shared vulnerability?

Addiction Research and Theory

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 514-525

  Steunenberg, Bas ^a   Yagmur, Senay ^a   Cuijpers, Pim ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Alcohol use; Depression; Older adults; Personality; Residential homes

Indexed keywords

EID: 53849120209     PISSN: 16066359     EISSN: 14767392     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/16066350802041356     Document Type: Article

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