Geriatric assessment tools

Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 489-497

  Rosen, Sonja L ^a   Reuben, David B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

elderly; geriatric assessment

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; COGNITIVE ASSESSMENT TOOL; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMORBIDITY; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; FALLING; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; GAIT DISORDER; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT TOOL; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; MALNUTRITION; MEDICAID; MEDICAL HISTORY; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; OBESITY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POLYPHARMACY; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT TOOL; RELIGION; SCORING SYSTEM; SCREENING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; URINE INCONTINENCE; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; WALKING; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COGNITION DISORDERS; DEPRESSION; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; MALNUTRITION; URINARY INCONTINENCE; VISION DISORDERS;

EID: 79960236199     PISSN: 00272507     EISSN: 19317581     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/msj.20277     Document Type: Article

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