Standard of living in the retirement survey: A predictor of six-year functional limitation onset and mortality in women, but not in men from ages 55-69 years

Disability and Rehabilitation

Volumn 27, Issue 23, 2005, Pages 1415-1423

  Spiers, Nicola A ^a   Matthews, Ruth J ^a   Barker, Geraldine A ^a   Jagger, Carol ^a   Hancock, Ruth M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BASIC NEEDS; CONSUMER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GERIATRICS; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HOUSEHOLD; HOUSING; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; ONSET AGE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RETIREMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMICS; STANDARDIZATION; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; DISABLED PERSONS; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; RETIREMENT; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SOCIAL CLASS;

EID: 31744440846     PISSN: 09638288     EISSN: 14645165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09638280500164347     Document Type: Article

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