Relationships between housing and healthy aging in very old age

Gerontologist

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 96-107

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^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

Accessibility; Environmental gerontology; Home; Person environment fit; Well being

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CONSTRUCTION WORK AND ARCHITECTURAL PHENOMENA; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HOUSING; HUMAN; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SATISFACTION;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ARCHITECTURAL ACCESSIBILITY; FEMALE; HOUSING; HUMANS; MALE; PERSONAL SATISFACTION;

EID: 34250902067     PISSN: 00169013     EISSN: 17585341     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/geront/47.1.96     Document Type: Article

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