Ingredients of an Old and Healthy Life: A Centenarian Perspective

Journal of Holistic Nursing

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 199-213

  Pascucci, Mary Ann ^a   Loving, Gay L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AGED; AGING; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; LONGEVITY; MALE; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REVIEW;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LONGEVITY; MALE; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 0031155010     PISSN: 08980101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/089801019701500209     Document Type: Article

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