Childhood misfortune as a threat to successful aging: Avoiding disease

Gerontologist

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 111-120

  Schafer, Markus H ^a   Ferraro, Kenneth F ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Childhood; Health, Chronic illness; Life course life span; Successful aging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHRONIC DISEASE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; CHILD; CHRONIC DISEASE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LOGISTIC MODELS; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

EID: 84856415916     PISSN: 00169013     EISSN: 17585341     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/geront/gnr071     Document Type: Article

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