Improvements and decline in the physical functioning of israeli older adults

Gerontologist

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 919-929

  Spalter, Tal ^a   Brodsky, Jenny ^a   Shnoor, Yitschak ^a  

^a MYERS JDC BROOKDALE INSTITUTE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Changes in functioning; Disablement process model; Rehabilitation

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARAB; COMORBIDITY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DISABLED PERSON; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; ISRAEL; JEW; LIFE EVENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRANT; PSYCHOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; USSR; VERY ELDERLY; VETERAN;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARABS; COMORBIDITY; DISABLED PERSONS; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; ISRAEL; JEWS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; USSR; VETERANS;

EID: 84922430530     PISSN: 00169013     EISSN: 17585341     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/geront/gnt084     Document Type: Article

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