‘Well, if the kids can do it, I can do it’: older rehabilitation patients’ experiences of telerehabilitation

Health Expectations

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 120-129

  Shulver, Wendy ^a   Killington, Maggie ^a,b   Morris, Claire ^b   Crotty, Maria ^a,b  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b REPATRIATION GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

home rehabilitation; older people; Telehealth; telerehabilitation

Indexed keywords

AGED; DISABLED PERSON; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; TELEREHABILITATION; VERY ELDERLY; VIDEORECORDING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DISABLED PERSONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; TELEREHABILITATION; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

EID: 84959934564     PISSN: 13696513     EISSN: 13697625     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/hex.12443     Document Type: Article

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