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Prevalence of sensory impairments in home care and long-term care using interRAI data from across Canada

BACKGROUND: In the general population, sensory impairments increase markedly with age in adults over 60 years of age. We estimated the prevalence of hearing loss only (HL), vision loss only (VL), and a combined impairment (i.e., dual sensory loss or DSL) in Canadians receiving home care (HC) or long...

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Autores principales: Guthrie, Dawn M., Williams, Nicole, Jaiswal, Atul, Mick, Paul, O’Rourke, Hannah M., Pichora-Fuller, M. Kathleen, Wittich, Walter, Sutradhar, Rinku
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9733010/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36482317
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-022-03671-7