Health and wellbeing of older people in Anglo-Australian and Italian-Australian communities: A rural-urban comparison

Australian Journal of Rural Health

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 5-11

  Lau, Rosalind ^a   Morse, Carol A ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ageing well; Older people; Place of residence; Rural; Urban

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; ELDERLY CARE; EMOTIONAL STABILITY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; ITALY; LEISURE; MALE; MENTAL CAPACITY; MENTAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; PSYCHOMETRY; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TELEPHONE; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RURAL HEALTH; URBAN HEALTH; VICTORIA;

EID: 38049123689     PISSN: 10385282     EISSN: 14401584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1584.2007.00933.x     Document Type: Article

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