Feelings of Abandonment and Quality of Life Among Older Persons in Rural Northeast Thailand

Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 257-269

  Sudnongbua, Supaporn ^a   LaGrow, Steven ^b   Boddy, Julie ^b  

^a NARESUAN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Abandoned; Northeast Thailand; Older persons; Quality of life; Rural

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; LONELINESS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; THAILAND;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERGENERATIONAL RELATIONS; LONELINESS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; THAILAND;

EID: 77957131159     PISSN: 01693816     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10823-010-9126-6     Document Type: Article

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