Importance of the home environment for healthy aging: Conceptual and methodological background of the European ENABLE-AGE Project

Gerontologist

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 78-84

  Iwarsson, Susanne ^a   Wahl, Hans Werner ^b   Nygren, Carita ^a   Oswald, Frank ^b   Sixsmith, Andrew ^c   Sixsmith, Judith ^d   Széan, Zsuzsa ^e   Tomsone, Signe ^f  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^d MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e Institute for Sociology Centre for Social Sciences of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences   (Hungary)

^f RIGA STRADINS UNIVERSITY   (Latvia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENT; EUROPE; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HOUSING; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; THEORETICAL MODEL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ENVIRONMENT; EUROPE; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HOUSING; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 34250817086     PISSN: 00169013     EISSN: 17585341     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/geront/47.1.78     Document Type: Article

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