Older homebound women: Negotiating reliance on a cane or walker

Qualitative Health Research

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 534-548

  Porter, Eileen J ^a   Benson, Jacquelyn J ^b   Matsuda, Sandy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

assistive; lived experience; older people; phenomenology; rehabilitation; technology

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; DISABLED PERSON; FEMALE; HOMEBOUND PATIENT; HUMAN; MENTAL STRESS; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RECORDING; SELF HELP; WALKING AID; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGE FACTORS; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; CANES; DISABLED PERSONS; FEMALE; HOMEBOUND PERSONS; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SELF-HELP DEVICES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TAPE RECORDING; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 79953097674     PISSN: 10497323     EISSN: 15527557     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1049732310385822     Document Type: Article

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