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Wellbeing in Long Term Care

The relationship between quality of life in a nursing home and personal, organizational, activity-related factors and social satisfaction: a cross-sectional study with multiple linear regression analyses

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Pages 649-658 | Received 24 Jul 2018, Accepted 26 Dec 2018, Published online: 06 Feb 2019

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