The invisible disease: Making sense of an osteoporosis diagnosis in older age

Qualitative Health Research

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1692-1704

  Weston, Joanne M ^a   Norris, Emma V ^a   Clark, Emma M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

aging; health care screening; health care, primary; health care, users' experiences; illness and disease, experiences; interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA); medicine; older people; relationships, health care; women's health

Indexed keywords

BISPHOSPHONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; BONE DENSITY CONSERVATION AGENT;

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MASS SCREENING; MULTICENTER STUDY; POSTMENOPAUSE OSTEOPOROSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; UNITED KINGDOM; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

AGED; AGING; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BONE DENSITY CONSERVATION AGENTS; COHORT STUDIES; DIPHOSPHONATES; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MASS SCREENING; OSTEOPOROSIS, POSTMENOPAUSAL; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 82655171888     PISSN: 10497323     EISSN: 15527557     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1049732311416825     Document Type: Article

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