Health-promoting interventions for persons aged 80 and older are successful in the short term-results from the randomized and three-armed elderly persons in the risk zone study

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 447-454

  Gustafsson, Susanne ^a,b,d   Wilhelmson, Katarina ^a,c   Eklund, Kajsa ^a,b   Gosman Hedström, Gunilla ^a,b   Zidén, Lena ^a,b   Kronlöf, Greta H ^a,b   Højgaard, Betina ^a,e,f   Slinde, Frode ^b   Rothenberg, Elisabeth ^b   Landahl, Sten ^a   Dahlin Ivanoff, Synneve ^a,b  

^a Swedish Institute for Health Sciences   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^c Community Medicine and Social Medicine ^*  (Sweden)

^d Section of Rheumatology   (Sweden)

^e Dansk Sundhedsinstitut   (Denmark)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

ADL; aged; frail elderly; intention to treat analysis; intervention studies

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DETERIORATION; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRAIL ELDERLY; GROUPS BY AGE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK FACTOR; RISK MANAGEMENT; SELF CONCEPT; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; SWEDEN;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRAIL ELDERLY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; INTERVENTION STUDIES; MALE; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SWEDEN;

EID: 84858330045     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2011.03861.x     Document Type: Article

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