What is the quality of life in the oldest old?

International Psychogeriatrics

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1003-1010

  Lapid, Maria I ^a   Rummans, Teresa A ^a   Boeve, Bradley F ^a   McCormick, Joan K ^a   Pankratz, V Shane ^a   Cha, Ruth H ^a   Smith, Glenn E ^a   Ivnik, Robert J ^a   Tangalos, Eric G ^a   Petersen, Ronald C ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

cognition; dementia; depression; geriatric; MCI; parkinsonism; stroke; well being

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALCOHOL ABUSE; ARTHROPATHY; ARTICLE; BACK; BONE DISEASE; BRAIN DISEASE; CAREGIVER SUPPORT; COGNITION; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DEMENTIA; DEMENTIA RATING SCALE; DEMENTIA WITH STROKE AND PARKINSONISM; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DRUG ABUSE; EAR DISEASE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EYE DISEASE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; GERIATRIC DEPRESSION SCALE; HUMAN; LINEAR ANALOGUE SELF ASSESSMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; NECK; NEOPLASM; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECORD OF INDEPENDENT LIVING; SELF REPORT; STROKE;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; MALE; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

EID: 79960111653     PISSN: 10416102     EISSN: 1741203X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1041610210002462     Document Type: Article

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