Factors favoring a degradation or an improvement in activities of daily living (ADL) performance among nursing home (NH) residents: A survival analysis

Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 250-257

  Bürge, Elisabeth ^a   von Gunten, Armin ^b   Berchtold, André ^c  

^a University of Applied Sciences   (Switzerland)

^b LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

ADL; Nursing home resident; Resident Assessment Instrument Minimum Data Set (RAI MDS); Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; INCONTINENCE; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEOPLASM; NURSING HOME PATIENT; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURVIVAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY MASS INDEX; COGNITION DISORDERS; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING HOMES; POSTURAL BALANCE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; URINARY INCONTINENCE;

EID: 84869492307     PISSN: 01674943     EISSN: 18726976     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.archger.2012.09.001     Document Type: Article

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