Population aging across time and cultures: Can we move from theory to evidence?

Journals of Gerontology - Series A Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 606-608

  Guralnik, Jack M ^a  

^a Gateway Building 3C309   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING; DISABILITY; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MORBIDITY; NOTE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THEORY; AGED; DISABLED PERSON; FEMALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STATISTICS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; DISABLED PERSONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 3042839102     PISSN: 10795006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gerona/59.6.m606     Document Type: Note

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