Feasibility of repeated use of the health risk appraisal for older people system as a health promotion tool in community-dwelling older people: Retrospective cohort study 2001-05

Age and Ageing

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 128-131

  Kharicha, Kalpa ^a   Iliffe, Steve ^a   Harari, Danielle ^b   Swift, Cameron G ^c   Goodman, Claire ^d   Manthorpe, Jill ^c   Gillmann, Gerhard ^e   Stuck, Andreas E ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^e Swiss Federal Office of Statistics   (Switzerland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY LIVING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; ELDERLY CARE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH RISK APPRAISAL FOR OLDER PEOPLE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; UNITED KINGDOM; WELLBEING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 83455213581     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: 14682834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afr126     Document Type: Letter

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