Social networks and disability transitions across eight intervals of yearly data in the New Haven EPESE

Journals of Gerontology - Series B Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 1999, Pages

  Mendes De Leon, Carlos F ^a   Glass, Thomas A ^b   Beckett, Laurel A ^a   Seeman, Teresa E ^b   Evans, Denis A ^a   Berkman, Lisa F ^b  

^a RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; DISABILITY; FAMILY LIFE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SURVIVAL TIME; WELLBEING;

EID: 0032995970     PISSN: 10795014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/geronb/54b.3.s162     Document Type: Article

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