Social engagement within the facility increased life expectancy in nursing home residents: a follow-up study

Abstract Background Social engagement (SE) has been consistently shown to improve survival among community-dwelling older people, but the evidence in nursing home residents is inconclusive and prone to short-term reverse causation and confounding by major health determinants. Our main objective was...

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Autors principals: Roberto Pastor-Barriuso, Alicia Padrón-Monedero, Lina M. Parra-Ramírez, Fernando J. García López, Javier Damián
Format: Article
Idioma:English
Publicat: BMC 2020-11-01
Col·lecció:BMC Geriatrics
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Accés en línia:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12877-020-01876-2