Incidence and predictors of eating disability among nursing home residents with middle-stage dementia

Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 172-177

  Slaughter, Susan E ^a,b   Eliasziw, Misha ^b   Morgan, Debra ^c   Drummond, Neil ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alzheimer disease; Cohort study; Dementia; Excess disability; Nursing home; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

ADL DISABILITY; AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; EATING DISABILITY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NURSING HOME; PREDICTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOCIAL ASPECT; SURVIVAL RATE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; EATING DISORDERS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; NURSING HOMES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 79953042125     PISSN: 02615614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clnu.2010.09.001     Document Type: Article

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