Depression is the Strongest Independent Risk Factor for Poor Social Engagement Among Chinese Elderly Veteran Assisted-living Residents

Journal of the Chinese Medical Association

Volumn 72, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 478-483

  Tsai, Chia Fen ^a,d   Ouyang, Wen Chen ^a   Chen, Liang Kung ^a,b,e   Lan, Chung Fu ^c   Hwang, Shinn Jang ^a,b,e   Yang, Cheng Hung ^a,d   Su, Tung Ping ^a,d  

^a Jianan Mental Hospital   (Taiwan)

^b TAIPEI VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c Institute of Health and Welfare Policy   (Taiwan)

^d Faculty of Medicine   (Taiwan)

^e NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

assisted living; depression; elderly; risk factor; social engagement

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CHINESE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; GERIATRIC DEPRESSION SCALE; GERONTOPSYCHIATRY; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; READING; RESIDENTIAL CARE; RISK FACTOR; SAMPLE SIZE; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SOCIAL INTERACTION; VETERAN; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASSISTED LIVING FACILITIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSION; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VETERANS;

EID: 70449363857     PISSN: 17264901     EISSN: 17287731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1726-4901(09)70411-3     Document Type: Article

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