Voices on relocation and aging in place in very old age-a complex and ambivalent matter

Gerontologist

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 919-927

  Löfqvist, Charlotte ^a   Granbom, Marianne ^a   Himmelsbach, Ines ^b   Iwarsson, Susanne ^a   Oswald, Frank ^b   Haak, Maria ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cross national; Enableage; Housing options; Move; Qualitative research; Residential relocation

Indexed keywords

AGING; ARTICLE; CROSS-NATIONAL; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEMOGRAPHY; EMOTION; ENABLE-AGE; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICE; HOUSING OPTIONS; HUMAN; INDEPENDENT LIVING; MALE; MOVE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RESIDENTIAL RELOCATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STANDARD; VERY ELDERLY;

CROSS-NATIONAL; ENABLE-AGE; HOUSING OPTIONS; MOVE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RESIDENTIAL RELOCATION;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; INDEPENDENT LIVING; MALE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84885869889     PISSN: 00169013     EISSN: 17585341     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/geront/gnt034     Document Type: Article

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