Intertwining courses of functional status and subjective health among older Japanese

Journals of Gerontology - Series B Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  Liang, Jersey ^a,b,e   Shaw, Benjamin A ^c   Bennett, Joan M ^a   Krause, Neal ^a,b   Kobayashi, Erika ^d   Fukaya, Taro ^d   Sugihara, Yoko ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY   (United States)

^d TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF GERONTOLOGY   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SELF CONCEPT;

EID: 35148854501     PISSN: 10795014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/geronb/62.5.S340     Document Type: Article

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