The effect of homebound status on older persons

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 58, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2358-2362

  Cohen Mansfield, Jiska ^a,b   Shmotkin, Dov ^a   Hazan, Haim ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

depressed affect; homebound status; mental health; mortality; older persons

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CENTER FOR EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES DEPRESSION SCALE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; GERONTOPSYCHIATRY; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HOMEBOUND STATUS; HUMAN; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; INSTITUTIONALIZATION; INSTRUMENTAL ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ISRAEL; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; MENTAL HEALTH; MORTALITY; ORIENTATION MEMORY CONCENTRATION TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; REGISTER;

EID: 78650153643     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2010.03172.x     Document Type: Article

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