Marital status and health: Exploring pre-widowhood

Journal of Palliative Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 848-856

  Williams, Beverly R ^a   Sawyer, Patricia ^b   Roseman, Jeffrey M ^c   Allman, Richard M ^a  

^a BIRMINGHAM VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY; DEPRESSION; DIVORCE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; MARRIAGE; MARRIED MAN; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RESIDENTIAL CARE; RURAL AREA; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL EVOLUTION; SPOUSE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WALKING DIFFICULTY; WIDOW;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANXIETY; BEREAVEMENT; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MARITAL STATUS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; WIDOWHOOD;

EID: 50049130066     PISSN: 10966218     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/jpm.2007.0190     Document Type: Article

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