Disability in elderly patients with chronic neurological illness: Stroke, multiple sclerosis and epilepsy

Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Mollaoĝlu, Mukadder ^a   Fertelli, Tülay Kars ^a   Tuncay, Fatma Özkan ^a  

^a CUMHURIYET UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Disability; Epilepsy; Multiple sclerosis; Neurological illness; Stroke

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BRIEF DISABILITY QUESTIONNAIRE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISABILITY SEVERITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; PATIENT INFORMATION; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; PHYSICAL MOBILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RIVERMEAD MOBILITY INDEX; SELF EMPLOYMENT; SOCIAL DISABILITY; STROKE; STROKE PATIENT; WIDOW;

AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISABILITY EVALUATION; DISABLED PERSONS; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STROKE; TURKEY;

EID: 79960078416     PISSN: 01674943     EISSN: 18726976     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.archger.2010.11.031     Document Type: Article

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