The politics of dependency estimates: Social security board statistics, 1935-1939

Journals of Gerontology - Series B Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 1997, Pages

  Gratton, Brian ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DEPENDENT PERSONALITY DISORDER; ELDERLY CARE; HUMAN; POLITICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENESCENCE; SOCIAL ASPECT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030909496     PISSN: 10795014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/geronb/52B.3.S117     Document Type: Article

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