Quality of Life as Perceived by Older Persons with Chronic Illness in Rural and Urban Shandong, China

Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 417-428

  Li, Lydia W ^a   Essex, Elizabeth L ^b   Long, Yan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b GOVERNORS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging in China; Semi structured interviews; Subjective well being; Urban rural

Indexed keywords

AGED; CHINA; CHRONIC DISEASE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; URBAN POPULATION; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHINA; CHRONIC DISEASE; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY OF LIFE; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84919784951     PISSN: 01693816     EISSN: 15730719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10823-014-9246-5     Document Type: Article

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