Behavioral adaptation and late-life disability: A new spectrum for assessing public health impacts

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 104, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Freedman, Vicki A ^a   Kasper, Judith D ^b   Spillman, Brenda C ^c   Agree, Emily M ^d   Mor, Vincent ^e   Wallace, Robert B ^f   Wolf, Douglas A ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c URBAN INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^g SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DISABLED PERSON; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICARE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLIC HEALTH; SELF CARE; SELF HELP; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW; VERY ELDERLY; WALKING DIFFICULTY;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; COGNITION DISORDERS; DISABLED PERSONS; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICARE; MOBILITY LIMITATION; PUBLIC HEALTH; SELF CARE; SELF-HELP DEVICES; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84893406844     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2013.301687     Document Type: Article

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