Resilience: Thoughts on the value of the concept for critical gerontology

Ageing and Society

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 137-158

  Wild, Kirsty ^a   Wiles, Janine L ^a   Allen, Ruth E S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

context; critical gerontology; interdependence; resilience; scale

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; MOBILITY; RESILIENCE;

EID: 84870599432     PISSN: 0144686X     EISSN: 14691779     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0144686X11001073     Document Type: Article

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