Senior moments: The acceptability of an ageist phrase

Journal of Aging Studies

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 123-142

  Bonnesen, Jaye L ^a   Burgess, Elisabeth O ^a  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accounts; Attitudes toward aging; Content analysis; Memory; Newspaper articles; Stereotypes

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; HUMAN; MEMORY DISORDER; PUBLICATION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

EID: 1842453821     PISSN: 08904065     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaging.2004.01.008     Document Type: Article

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