Predicting Individual Change in Support over Time among Chronically Impaired Older Adults

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 770-779

  Reinhardt, Joann P ^a,b   Boerner, Kathrin ^a   Benn, Dolores ^a  

^a Arlene R Gordon Research Institute   (United States)

^b Lighthouse International   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; DEMOGRAPHY; DISABILITY; FAMILY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INVALIDITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; REHABILITATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; CHRONIC DISEASE; DISABLED PERSONS; FAMILY RELATIONS; FEMALE; FORECASTING; FRIENDS; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SOCIAL SUPPORT; VISION DISORDERS;

EID: 0346120093     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0882-7974.18.4.770     Document Type: Article

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