Open AccessSelf-Neglect Among the Elderly: A Model Based on More Than 500 Patients Seen by a Geriatric Medicine Team
Author(s) -
Carmel B. Dyer,
James S. Goodwin,
Sabrina Pickens-Pace,
Jason Burnett,
P. Adam Kelly
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284
H-Index - 264
eISSN - 1541-0048
pISSN - 0090-0036
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.2006.097113
Subject(s) - neglect , geriatrics , medicine , intervention (counseling) , gerontology , geriatric depression scale , psychiatry , clinical psychology , cognition , depressive symptoms
We sought to identify the functional, cognitive, and social factors associated with self-neglect among the elderly to aid the development of etiologic models to guide future research.