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Volume 122, Issue 4 , Pages 394-396 , April 2008

Functional disability in activities of daily living and instrumental activities of daily living among Nepalese Newar elderly

  • Hom Nath Chalise

      Affiliations

    • Department of Social Gerontology, School of Public Health, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Japan
    • Help Aged Nepal, GPO Box No. 8975 EPC 2374, Kathmandu, Nepal
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +81358413514; fax: +81356846083.
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  • Tami Saito

      Affiliations

    • Department of Social Gerontology, School of Public Health, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Japan
    • ,
  • Ichiro Kai

      Affiliations

    • Department of Social Gerontology, School of Public Health, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Japan

Received 27 October 2006 ,Revised 14 February 2007 ,Accepted 23 July 2007.

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PII: S0033-3506(07)00249-1

doi: 10.1016/j.puhe.2007.07.015

Public Health
Volume 122, Issue 4 , Pages 394-396 , April 2008

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