Generic quality of life assessment in dementia patients: A prospective cohort study

BMC Neurology

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Schiffczyk, Claudia ^a   Romero, Barbara ^b   Jonas, Christina ^a   Lahmeyer, Constanze ^a   Müller, Friedemann ^b   Riepe, Matthias W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b Alzheimer Therapiezentrum Bad Aibling   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BAYER ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING SCALE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BEHAVIORAL PATHOLOGY IN ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RATING SCALE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; DISEASE SEVERITY; EURO QOL; FEMALE; GERIATRIC DEPRESSION SCALE; HUMAN; KRUSKAL WALLIS TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; MOOD DISORDER; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF CONCEPT; VERBALIZATION; AFFECT; CAREGIVER; COGNITION; HOSPITALIZATION; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; SELF EVALUATION;

ADULT; AFFECT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAREGIVERS; COGNITION; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; QUALITY OF LIFE; SELF ASSESSMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 77953634725     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2377-10-48     Document Type: Article

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