Home and community care services: A major opportunity for preventive health care

BMC Geriatrics

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Jorm, Louisa R ^a,b   Walter, Scott R ^a,c   Lujic, Sanja ^a   Byles, Julie E ^d   Kendig, Hal L ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b SAX INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^c New South Wales Government   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^e Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY CARE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HOME CARE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; SOCIOECONOMICS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; COMMUNITY NETWORKS; FEMALE; HOME CARE SERVICES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 77952451113     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2318-10-26     Document Type: Article

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