Successful aging: What's not to like?

Journal of Applied Gerontology

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 277-282

  Scheidt, Rick J ^a   Humpherys, Daniel R ^b   Yorgason, Jeremy B ^b  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; GERONTOLOGY; HUMAN; QUALITY OF LIFE; RESPONSIBILITY; REVIEW; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

EID: 0032884333     PISSN: 07334648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/073346489901800301     Document Type: Review

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