Screening and preventive services for older adults

Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 498-508

  Nicholas, Joseph A ^a   Hall, William J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

Author keywords

Affordable Care Act; Assessing the Care of Vulnerable Elders project; gait speed; Medicare; older adults; preventive services; screening; US Preventive Services Task Force

Indexed keywords

PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE; TETANUS TOXOID; VARICELLA ZOSTER VACCINE;

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISABILITY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IMMUNIZATION; LIFESTYLE MODIFICATION; LONGEVITY; MEDICARE; OBESITY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; POLYPHARMACY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PROBABILITY; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; QUALITY OF LIFE; REIMBURSEMENT; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; SCREENING; SEDENTARY LIFESTYLE; SMOKING; SURVIVAL RATE; TERMINAL CARE; WELLBEING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; HEALTH SERVICES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MASS SCREENING; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICES;

EID: 79960251453     PISSN: 00272507     EISSN: 19317581     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/msj.20275     Document Type: Article

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