Homebound older persons: Prevalence, characteristics, and longitudinal predictors

Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 55-60

  Cohen Mansfield, Jiska ^a,b   Shmotkin, Dov ^a   Hazan, Haim ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Homebound status; Israel; Mental health

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HEALTH STATUS; HOMEBOUND PATIENT; HUMAN; ISRAEL; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; OBESITY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL ASPECT; UNDERWEIGHT;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HOMEBOUND PERSONS; HUMANS; ISRAEL; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PREVALENCE;

EID: 80054934049     PISSN: 01674943     EISSN: 18726976     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.archger.2011.02.016     Document Type: Article

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