Personal networks and mortality risk in older adults: A twenty-year longitudinal study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Ellwardt, Lea ^a   Van Tilburg, Theo ^b   Aartsen, Marja ^b   Wittek, Rafael ^c   Steverink, Nardi ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HUMAN; LONELINESS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NETHERLANDS; PHYSICAL CAPACITY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK REDUCTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIAL ATTITUDE; SOCIAL COGNITION; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOCIAL PARTICIPATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL RATE; VERY ELDERLY; COGNITION; EMOTION; HUMAN RELATION; INTERVIEW; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; COGNITION; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LONELINESS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84923914197     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0116731     Document Type: Article

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