Eyes on the prize: Life goals in the context of visual disability in midlife

Clinical Rehabilitation

Volumn 24, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1127-1135

  Popivker, Luba ^a   Wang, Shu Wen ^b   Boerner, Kathrin ^a  

^a Research Institute on Aging   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; UNITED STATES; VISUAL DISORDER;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GOALS; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW YORK CITY; VISION DISORDERS;

EID: 78650090492     PISSN: 02692155     EISSN: 14770873     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0269215510371421     Document Type: Article

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