Memory performance, health literacy, and instrumental activities of daily living of community residing older adults

Nursing Research

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 70-75

  McDougall, Graham J ^a   Mackert, Michael ^b   Becker, Heather ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b Department of Advertising ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

health literacy; memory performance; older adults; performance based instrumental activities

Indexed keywords

EID: 83655183152     PISSN: 00296562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NNR.0b013e31823b18f4     Document Type: Article

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