Sentence Completion to Assess Children's Views about Aging

Gerontologist

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 839-848

  Lichtenstein, Michael J ^a,b   Pruski, Linda A ^b   Marshall, Carolyn E ^b   Blalock, Cheryl L ^b   Lee, Shuko ^b   Plaetke, Rosemarie ^b  

^a Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Education; Health promotion; Middle school; Sentence completion

Indexed keywords

AGING; ALOPECIA; ARTICLE; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; LIFESPAN; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NORMAL HUMAN; SOCIAL LEARNING; SOCIOLOGY; WRINKLE;

EID: 0346728875     PISSN: 00169013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/geront/43.6.839     Document Type: Article

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