Interactions with friends in a nursing home and residents' morale

Activities, Adaptation and Aging

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 23-40

  Sherer, Moshe ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Activities; Nursing homes; Visits morale

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937333933     PISSN: 01924788     EISSN: 15444368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J016v26n01_02     Document Type: Article

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