The shifting baseline theory of Well-Being: Lessons from across the aging spectrum

Understanding Well-Being in the Oldest Old

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 46-64

  Cohen Mansfield, Jiska ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

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EID: 84923496557     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511920974.005     Document Type: Chapter

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