Social Isolation and Physical Barriers in the Houses of Stroke Survivors in Rural China

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Volumn 97, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 2054-2060

  Zhang, Lifang ^a,b   Yan, Tiebin ^b   You, Liming ^b   Li, Kun ^b   Gao, Yan ^b  

^a YOUJIANG MEDICAL COLLEGE FOR NATIONALITIES   (China)

^b SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Architectural accessibility; China; Environment; Rehabilitation; Social isolation; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; APHASIA; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHINA; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HOME; HUMAN; LEISURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RURAL AREA; SELF CARE; SOCIAL ISOLATION; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SURVIVOR; CONSTRUCTION WORK AND ARCHITECTURAL PHENOMENA; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEMOGRAPHY; HOUSING; INTERVIEW; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; STROKE; VERY ELDERLY; WALKING DIFFICULTY;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARCHITECTURAL ACCESSIBILITY; CHINA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HOUSING; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOBILITY LIMITATION; QUALITY OF LIFE; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RURAL POPULATION; SELF CARE; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STROKE; SURVIVORS;

EID: 84994537909     PISSN: 00039993     EISSN: 1532821X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apmr.2016.07.007     Document Type: Article

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