Getting Better and Getting Worse: Transitions in Functional Status among Older Americans

Journal of Aging and Health

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1993, Pages 3-36

  Crimmins, Eileen M ^a   Saito, Yasuhiko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; RACE DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0027393604     PISSN: 08982643     EISSN: 15526887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/089826439300500101     Document Type: Article

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