Identification of cognitive impairment and mental illness in elderly homeless men: Before and after access to primary health care

Canadian Family Physician

Volumn 55, Issue 11, 2009, Pages

  Joyce, David P ^a,b   Limbos, Marjolaine ^c  

^a Pender Community Health Centre   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c BC CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BIPOLAR DISORDER; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; GERIATRIC CARE; GERIATRIC DEPRESSION SCALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HOMELESSNESS; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MENTAL DISEASE; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCREENING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COGNITION DISORDERS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HOMELESS PERSONS; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; ONTARIO; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 73449101113     PISSN: 0008350X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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