Changes in the key areas of quality of life associated with age and time since diagnosis of long-term conditions

Chronic Illness

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 112-120

  Osborne, Lisa A ^a   Bindemann, Neil ^b   Noble, J Gareth ^a   Reed, Phil ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b QoL Healthcare Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

'adaptational' changes; 'maturational' changes; independence and normality; Quality of life; wellbeing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BRAIN DISEASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CHRONIC PATIENT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE DURATION; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDEPENDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NEOPLASM; OSTEOPOROSIS; PARKINSON DISEASE; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SPINA BIFIDA;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGING; CHRONIC DISEASE; COST OF ILLNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84861024288     PISSN: 17423953     EISSN: 17459206     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1742395312436747     Document Type: Article

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