Racial Differences in Minnesota Nursing Home Residents' Quality of Life

Journal of Aging and Health

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 199-224

  Shippee, Tetyana P ^a   Henning Smith, Carrie ^a   Rhee, Taeho Greg ^a   Held, Robert N ^b   Kane, Robert L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b Minnesota Department of Human Services   (United States)

Author keywords

long term care; nursing home; quality of life; racial disparities

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL BINDING; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MODEL; NURSING HOME PATIENT; QUALITY OF LIFE; RACE DIFFERENCE; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; AMERICAN INDIAN; ANCESTRY GROUP; ASIAN AMERICAN; CAUCASIAN; FEMALE; HEALTH DISPARITY; HISPANIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINNESOTA; NURSING HOME; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASIAN AMERICANS; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINNESOTA; NURSING HOMES; QUALITY OF LIFE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84957679578     PISSN: 08982643     EISSN: 15526887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0898264315589576     Document Type: Article

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