Mortality in nursing home residents without cognitive impairment and its relation to self-reported health-related quality of life, sociodemographic factors, illness variables and cancer diagnosis: A 5-year follow-up study

Quality of Life Research

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 317-325

  Drageset, Jorunn ^a   Eide, Geir Egil ^b,c   Ranhoff, Anette Hylen ^c,d  

^a BERGEN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE   (Norway)

^b Centre for Clinical Research   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^d STATOIL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Cancer; Elderly; Mortality; Nursing homes

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AGED; COGNITION; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HOME FOR THE AGED; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MORTALITY; NEOPLASMS; NURSING HOME; PAIN; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITY OF LIFE; SELF REPORT; SOCIOECONOMICS; VERY ELDERLY; ARTICLE; NEOPLASM; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COGNITION; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MORTALITY; NEOPLASMS; NURSING HOMES; PAIN; QUALITY OF LIFE; SELF REPORT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84878406563     PISSN: 09629343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11136-012-0143-5     Document Type: Article

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