Good places for ageing in place: Development of objective built environment measures for investigating links with older people's wellbeing

BMC Public Health

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Burton, Elizabeth J ^a   Mitchell, Lynne ^a   Stride, Chris B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CHECKLIST; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; SATISFACTION; UNITED KINGDOM;

AGED; AGING; CHECKLIST; ENGLAND; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 80055050569     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-11-839     Document Type: Article

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