Resident health-related quality of life in Swiss nursing homes

European Psychiatry

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 549-554

  Chouiter, L ^a,b   Wodchis, W P ^c   Abderhalden, C ^d   von Gunten, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Geriatric psychiatry and aging; Quality of care; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COGNITION; COGNITION ASSESSMENT; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COGNITIVE PERFORMANCE SCALE; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EFFECT SIZE; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; FALLING; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; INCONTINENCE; LEISURE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LUNG DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIED PERSON; MENTAL DISEASE; MINIMUM DATA SET HEALTH STATUS INDEX; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; NURSING HOME; NURSING HOME PATIENT; PARKINSON DISEASE; PATIENT MOBILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUALITY OF LIFE ASSESSMENT; RELIGION; SMOKE; SWISS; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; HEALTH STATUS; HOME FOR THE AGED; PSYCHOLOGY; SWITZERLAND;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; NURSING HOMES; QUALITY OF LIFE; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84931576376     PISSN: 09249338     EISSN: 17783585     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eurpsy.2014.10.001     Document Type: Article

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