Delineating terminal change in subjective well-being and subjective health

Journals of Gerontology - Series B Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences

Volumn 65 B, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 61-64

  Palgi, Yuval ^a   Shrira, Amit ^a   Ben Ezra, Menachem ^b   Spalter, Tal ^c   Shmotkin, Dov ^a   Kavé, Gitit ^a,d  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b ARIEL UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c Department of Sociology and Anthropology ^*  (Canada)

^d OPEN UNIVERSITY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

Author keywords

CALAS; Self rated health; Subjective well being; Terminal change

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COGNITION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; LONGEVITY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; SELF CONCEPT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COGNITION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; LONGEVITY; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; QUALITY OF LIFE; SELF CONCEPT;

EID: 73949099054     PISSN: 10795014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/geronb/gbp095     Document Type: Article

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