Aging on the old frontier and the new a behavior setting approach to the declining small towns of the midwest

Environment and Behavior

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 240-258

  Norris Baker, Carolyn ^a  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING POPULATION; FRONTIER REGION; RURAL SOCIETY; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS;

MIDWEST; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033030561     PISSN: 00139165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/00139169921972083     Document Type: Article

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