Quality of life (QOL) of older adult community choral singers in Finland

International Psychogeriatrics

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1055-1064

  Johnson, Julene K ^a   Louhivuori, Jukka ^b   Stewart, Anita L ^a   Tolvanen, Asko ^b   Ross, Leslie ^a   Era, Pertti ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^c GeroCenter Foundation for Research and Development   (Finland)

^d Central Finland Health Care District ^*  (Finland)

Author keywords

aging; choir; music; quality of life

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FINLAND; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF REPORT; SENESCENCE; SINGING; SOCIAL INTERACTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SATISFACTION; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIOECONOMICS; VERY ELDERLY; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; ENVIRONMENT; GERONTOPSYCHIATRY; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIFE SATISFACTION; LIFESPAN; METHODOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSION; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; FINLAND; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SINGING; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84885453141     PISSN: 10416102     EISSN: 1741203X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1041610213000422     Document Type: Article

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