Explaining quality of life of older people in the Netherlands using a multidimensional assessment of frailty

Quality of Life Research

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 2051-2061

  Gobbens, Robbert J J ^a,b   Luijkx, Katrien G ^b   Van Assen, Marcel A L M ^c  

^a ROTTERDAM UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Frailty; Nursing; Older people; Quality of life; Tilburg Frailty Indicator

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISABILITY; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NETHERLANDS; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; VERY ELDERLY; VULNERABLE POPULATION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; NETHERLANDS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84889098720     PISSN: 09629343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11136-012-0341-1     Document Type: Article

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