Rural-urban differences in the long-term care of the disabled elderly in China

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Li, Mei ^a   Zhang, Yang ^a   Zhang, Zhenyu ^a   Zhang, Ying ^b   Zhou, Litao ^c   Chen, Kun ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Zhejiang Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine   (China)

^c ZHEJIANG HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CHINA; COMORBIDITY; COST; DEMENTIA; DISABLED PERSON; ELDERLY CARE; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYGIENE PRODUCT; IMMOBILITY; INCOME; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL CARE; MIDDLE AGED; PENSION; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHINA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISABLED PERSONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONG-TERM CARE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RURAL POPULATION; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84892404307     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0079955     Document Type: Article

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