JAMDA
Volume 11, Issue 2 , Pages 106-115 , February 2010

Adherence to Hip Protectors and Implications for U.S. Long-Term Care Settings

  • Sheryl Zimmerman, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Program on Aging, Disability and Long-Term Care, Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, and the School of Social Work, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to Sheryl Zimmerman, PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, 725 Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, Chapel Hill, NC 27590–7599.
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  • Jay Magaziner, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Gerontology, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of Maryland Baltimore, Baltimore, MD
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  • Stanley J. Birge, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Geriatrics and Nutritional Science, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
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  • Bruce A. Barton, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Maryland Medical Research Institute, Baltimore, MD
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  • Shari S. Kronsberg, MS

      Affiliations

    • Maryland Medical Research Institute, Baltimore, MD
    • ,
  • Douglas P. Kiel, MD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Hebrew Senior Life Institute for Aging Research and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

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 Funded by National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Aging grant R01 AG018461 and supported in part by the Lawrence J. and Anne Cable Rubenstein Charitable Foundation.

PII: S1525-8610(09)00346-6

doi: 10.1016/j.jamda.2009.09.013

JAMDA
Volume 11, Issue 2 , Pages 106-115 , February 2010

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