A stratified randomly selected sample of 28 of all elderly long-term care institutions in the Southampton district was studied including private and local authority residential homes, private nursing homes and NHS geriatric and psychogeriatric wards. The manager was interviewed with a 57-item qualit
The relationship between quality of life and levels of hopelessness and depression in palliative care
β Scribed by Kyriaki Mystakidou; Eleni Tsilika; Efi Parpa; Maria Pathiaki; Antonis Galanos; Lambros Vlahos
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 97 KB
- Volume
- 25
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1091-4269
- DOI
- 10.1002/da.20319
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