Multiple Disadvantages Among Older Citizens: What a Multidimensional Measure of Poverty Can Show

Journal of Aging and Social Policy

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 368-383

  Callander, Emily J ^a   Schofield, Deborah J ^a   Shrestha, Rupendra N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

capabilities; education; health; income; poverty

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; ELDERLY POPULATION; INCOME; POVERTY; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS;

AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CHRONIC DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATOR; HUMAN; MALE; POVERTY; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS; VERY ELDERLY; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUSTRALIA; CHRONIC DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; MALE; POVERTY; SEX FACTORS; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

EID: 84871124859     PISSN: 08959420     EISSN: 15450821     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08959420.2012.735177     Document Type: Article

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