Social integration and healthy aging in Japan: How gender and rurality matter

Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 199-216

  Tanaka, Kimiko ^a   Johnson, Nan E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ADLs; Depression; IADLs; Longitudinal survey; Role enhancement; Role strain

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEPRESSION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; JAPAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RURAL POPULATION; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; JAPAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; RURAL POPULATION; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 77952426308     PISSN: 01693816     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10823-010-9118-6     Document Type: Article

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