Journal article
Personal experience of living with knee osteoarthritis among older adults
Abstract
PURPOSE: Knee osteoarthritis (OA) is the most common cause of chronic disability amongst community-dwelling older adults. Yet, little is understood about the daily experience of knee OA. As clinicians we fail to understand a large group of individuals that we aim to help. We conducted an exploratory study that aimed to understand the experience of living with knee OA in older adults.
METHOD: We used a descriptive phenomenology, grounded in the …
Authors
Maly MR; Krupa T
Journal
Disability and Rehabilitation, Vol. 29, No. 18, pp. 1423–1433
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Publication Date
1 2007
DOI
10.1080/09638280601029985
ISSN
0963-8288