Religiousness and longitudinal trajectories in elders' functional status

Research on Aging

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 279-298

  Park, Nan Sook ^a,d   Klemmack, David L ^a   Roff, Lucinda L ^a   Parker, Michael W ^a   Koenig, Harold G ^b   Sawyer, Patricia ^c   Allman, Richard M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Elderly; Functional status; HLM; Religiousness

Indexed keywords

EID: 41549124992     PISSN: 01640275     EISSN: 15527573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0164027507313001     Document Type: Article

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