Baby boomers and adult ageing: Issues for social and public policy

Quality in Ageing

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 32-40

  Biggs, Simon ^a   Phillipson, Chris ^b   Leach, Rebecca ^b   Money, Annemarie ^b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Baby boomers; Consumers; Identity; Older workers; Resources; Retirement

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950764274     PISSN: 14717794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14717794200700019     Document Type: Article

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