Hopeful thinking in older adults: Back to the future

Experimental Aging Research

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 217-233

  Wrobleski, Kristin Kahle ^a   Snyder, C R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY CARE; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; FUTUROLOGY; HEALTH STATUS; HOPE THEORY; HUMAN; LIFE SATISFACTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; THEORY; THINKING;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; AGING; DISABILITY EVALUATION; EMOTIONS; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MEMORY; QUALITY OF LIFE; THINKING;

EID: 15344343687     PISSN: 0361073X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610730590915452     Document Type: Article

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