Subsidized housing not subsidized health: Health status and fatigue among elders in public housing and other community settings

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 85-90

  Parsons, Pamela L ^a   Mezuk, Briana ^a   Ratliff, Scott ^a   Lapane, Kate L ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Elderly; Fatigue; Public housing

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY LIVING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FALLING; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HISPANIC; HOUSING; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INCONTINENCE; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSCLE FUNCTION; NEOPLASM; PHYSICAL MOBILITY; PREVALENCE; SELF REPORT; STROKE;

AGED; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MALE; POVERTY; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HOUSING; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79954985860     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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