Prevalence of health related disability among community dwelling urban elderly from middle socioeconomic strata in Bangaluru, India

Indian Journal of Medical Research

Volumn 131, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 515-521

  Srinivasan, Krishnamachari ^a   Vaz, Mario ^a   Thomas, Tinku ^a  

^a ST JOHN'S NATIONAL ACADEMY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Cognitive impairment; Disability; Elderly people

Indexed keywords

ADL DISABILITY; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DISABILITY SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; INDIA; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF FUNCTIONING, DISABILITY AND HEALTH; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; URBAN POPULATION;

AGED; DISABLED PERSONS; HUMANS; INDIA; PREVALENCE; SOCIAL CLASS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 77951049360     PISSN: 09715916     EISSN: 09715916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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