Out-of-home behavior and cognitive impairment in older adults: Findings of the sentra project

Journal of Applied Gerontology

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 3-25

  Wettstein, Markus ^a   Wahl, Hans Werner ^a   Shoval, Noam ^b   Oswald, Frank ^c   Voss, Elke ^d   Seidl, Ulrich ^e   Frölich, Lutz ^d   Auslander, Gail ^b   Heinik, Jeremia ^f   Landau, Ruth ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Germany)

^e KLINIKUM STUTTGART   (Germany)

^f TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; GPS tracking technology; mild cognitive impairment; old age; out of home behavior

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; COGNITION; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; GERONTOPSYCHIATRY; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY; WALKING; WALKING DIFFICULTY;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; COGNITION; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; GERIATRIC PSYCHIATRY; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; MOBILITY LIMITATION; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; WALKING;

EID: 84920508438     PISSN: 07334648     EISSN: 15524523     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0733464812459373     Document Type: Article

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