Beyond keeping active: Concomitants of being a volunteer in old-old age

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 602-607

  Shmotkin, Dov ^a   Blumstein, Tzvia ^b   Modan, Baruch ^a,c  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b GERTNER INSTITUTE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND HEALTH POLICY RESEARCH   (Israel)

^c SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISRAEL; LEISURE; LIFESTYLE; LONGEVITY; MALE; MORTALITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; VOLUNTEER; WELLBEING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MORTALITY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK FACTORS; VOLUNTARY WORKERS;

EID: 0141853239     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0882-7974.18.3.602     Document Type: Article

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