Aging and cumulative inequality: How does inequality get under the skin?

Gerontologist

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 333-343

  Ferraro, Kenneth F ^a   Shippee, Tetyana Pylypiv ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cumulative disadvantage; Life course; Psychosomatic processes; Stress; Theory

Indexed keywords

AGING; ARTICLE; ELDERLY CARE; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SENESCENCE; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL STRESS;

AGING; GERIATRICS; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SOCIAL JUSTICE; SOCIAL SCIENCES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 67149141897     PISSN: 00169013     EISSN: 17585341     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/geront/gnp034     Document Type: Article

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