Converging divergences in age, gender, health, and well-being: Strategic selection in the third age

Handbook of Aging and the Social Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 127-144

  Moen, Phyllis ^a   Spencer, Donna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1016/B978-012088388-2/50011-0     Document Type: Chapter

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