Normal and Successful Aging: What Happens to Function as We Age

Primary Psychiatry

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 35-38+47

  Phillips, Edward M ^a,b   Davidoff, Donald A ^b,c  

^a and Red Sox Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital Home Base Program   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c MCLEAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; COGNITION; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; LIFESTYLE; LONGEVITY; MORBIDITY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; PHYSICAL DISEASE; PRESCRIPTION; REVIEW; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STENOSIS;

EID: 1842455739     PISSN: 10826319     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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