Health status transitions in community-living elderly with complex care needs: a latent class approach

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>For older persons with complex care needs, accounting for the variability and interdependency in how health dimensions manifest themselves is necessary to understand the dynamic of health status. Our objective is to test the hypothes...

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Main Authors: Béland François, Lafortune Louise, Bergman Howard, Ankri Joël
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2009-02-01
Series:BMC Geriatrics
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2318/9/6