Relationships of Disability with Age Among Adults Aged 50 to 85: Evidence from the United States, England and Continental Europe

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Wahrendorf, Morten ^a   Reinhardt, Jan D ^b,c   Siegrist, Johannes ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b SWISS PARAPLEGIC RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LUCERNE   (Switzerland)

^d HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADL DISABILITY; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISABILITY; DISABILITY SEVERITY; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IMMOBILIZATION; MALE; OBESITY; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISABLED PERSONS; ENGLAND; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOBILITY LIMITATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84881531195     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0071893     Document Type: Article

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