Emotional and cognitive health correlates of leisure activities in older Latino and Caucasian women

Psychology, Health and Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 661-674

  Herrera, Angelica P ^a   Meeks, Thomas W ^b   Dawes, Sharron E ^b   Hernandez, Dominique M ^c   Thompson, Wesley K ^b   Sommerfeld, David H ^b   Allison, Matthew A ^b   Jeste, Dilip V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

cognition; depression; elderly; Hispanic; leisure activities

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DEPRESSION; EMOTION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH DISPARITY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; LEISURE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; POSTMENOPAUSE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

AGED; AGING; COGNITION DISORDERS; DEPRESSION; EMOTIONS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; LEISURE ACTIVITIES; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; POSTMENOPAUSE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84857401390     PISSN: 13548506     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13548506.2011.555773     Document Type: Article

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