Exploring the prevalence and variance of cognitive impairment, pain, neuropsychiatric symptoms and ADL dependency among persons living in nursing homes; A cross-sectional study

BMC Geriatrics

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Björk, Sabine ^a   Juthberg, Christina ^a   Lindkvist, Marie ^a,b   Wimo, Anders ^c   Sandman, Per Olof ^a,c,d   Winblad, Bengt ^c   Edvardsson, David ^a,e  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^d LULEÅ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^e LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Activities of daily living; Cross sectional study; Dementia; Frail elderly; Neuropsychiatric symptoms; Nursing homes; Pain; Prevalence

Indexed keywords

AGED; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DYSFUNCTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; HUMAN; MALE; NURSING HOME; PAIN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PSYCHIATRIC PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SWEDEN; VERY ELDERLY;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BEHAVIORAL SYMPTOMS; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DYSFUNCTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; HUMANS; MALE; NURSING HOMES; PAIN; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; SWEDEN;

EID: 84983247604     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12877-016-0328-9     Document Type: Article

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