Volunteers' experiences of becoming arthritis self-management lay leaders: "It's almost as if I've stopped aging and started to get younger!"

Arthritis Care and Research

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 378-383

  Hainsworth, Jenny ^a   Barlow, Julie ^a  

^a Institute for Clean Growth and Future Mobility   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arthritis self management; Health status; Older volunteers

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ALTRUISM; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HAPPINESS; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MANAGEMENT; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RETIREMENT; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SELF CONCEPT; TRAINING; VOLUNTEER;

EID: 0034897417     PISSN: 21514658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1529-0131(200108)45:4<378::aid-art351>3.0.co;2-t     Document Type: Article

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