Health-related Quality of Life among hospitalized older people awaiting residential aged care.

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Published in Health Qual Life Outcomes on July 26, 2009

Authors

Lynne C Giles1, Graeme Hawthorne, Maria Crotty

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Rehabilitation and Aged Care, Flinders University, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide, South Australia 5001. Lynne.Giles@adelaide.edu.au

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