Perceived age discrimination in older adults

Age and Ageing

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 346-351

  Rippon, Isla ^a   Kneale, Dylan ^b   Oliveira, Cesar De ^a   Demakakos, Panayotes ^a   Steptoe, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b International Longevity Centre UK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ageing; Ageism; Discrimination; Elsa; England; Older adults

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGEISM; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO AGING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMPLOYMENT STATUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL STATUS; UNITED KINGDOM; VERY ELDERLY; AGING; DEMOGRAPHY; ENGLAND; HEALTH DISPARITY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTION; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; COHORT ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PENSIONER;

AGED; AGEISM; AGING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEMOGRAPHY; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84902002765     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: 14682834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/aft146     Document Type: Article

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