Visual capacity, out-of-home activities and emotional well-being in old age: Basic relations and contextual variation

Social Indicators Research

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 159-189

  Heyl, Vera ^a   Wahl, Hans Werner ^a   Mollenkopf, Heidrun ^a  

^a GERMAN CENTRE FOR RESEARCH ON AGEING   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELDERLY POPULATION; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; MENTAL HEALTH; SOCIAL NETWORK; VISUAL ANALYSIS;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY;

EID: 27744442373     PISSN: 03038300     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11205-005-6522-3     Document Type: Article

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