Coping with the cold - Exploring relationships between cold housing, health and social wellbeing in a sample of older people in Ireland

Quality in Ageing and Older Adults

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 38-47

  Cotter, Noëlle ^a   Monahan, Eugene ^b   McAvoy, Helen ^a   Goodman, Patrick ^c  

^a Inst of Public Health in Ireland   (Ireland)

^b DUBLIN CITY COUNCIL   (Ireland)

^c DUBLIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Cold weather; Fuel poverty; Health and social wellbeing; Housing conditions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886943273     PISSN: 14717794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14717791211213607     Document Type: Article

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