Correlates of institutionalized senior veterans' quality of life in Taiwan

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Volumn 8, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Chang, Hsiao Ting ^a,b   Liu, Li Fan ^a   Chen, Chun Ku ^b   Hwang, Shinn Jang ^b   Chen, Liang Kung ^b   Lu, Feng Hwa ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b TAIPEI VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BARTHEL INDEX; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; ENVIRONMENT; GERIATRIC DEPRESSION SCALE; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; HYPERTENSION; INSTITUTIONALIZATION; KIDNEY DISEASE; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LUNG DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; NEOPLASM; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PROSTATE HYPERTROPHY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIABILITY; SHORT FORM 36; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STROKE; SYMPTOM; TAIWAN; VETERAN; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; INTERVIEW; POLAND; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HOSPITALS, VETERANS; HUMANS; INSTITUTIONALIZATION; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; POLAND; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TAIWAN; VETERANS;

EID: 77954562206     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7525-8-70     Document Type: Article

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