Journal article
Health Status Assessment of the Elderly
Abstract
The elderly are a heterogeneous population group who range from well and completely independent individuals to a smaller proportion who are frail, require help and are high users of the healthcare system. Since health is a state of well-being which includes the domains of social, spiritual, psychological and physical function, each of these domains must be evaluated when we are measuring the health of older adults. In this article, we discuss …
Authors
Turpie I; Strang D; Darzins P; Guyatt G
Journal
PharmacoEconomics, Vol. 12, No. 5, pp. 533–546
Publisher
Springer Nature
Publication Date
11 1997
DOI
10.2165/00019053-199712050-00004
ISSN
1170-7690