Continuity of leisure participation from middle age to old age

Journals of Gerontology - Series B Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2006, Pages

  Agahi, Neda ^a,b,c   Ahacic, Kozma ^a   Parker, Marti G ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c AGING RESEARCH CENTER   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HABIT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEISURE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWEDEN;

EID: 33751564535     PISSN: 10795014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/geronb/61.6.S340     Document Type: Article

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