Keeping disease at arm's length - How older Danish people distance disease through active ageing

Ageing and Society

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 1364-1383

  Lassen, Aske Juul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

active ageing; activity centres; chronic disease; Denmark; ethnography; everyday life; health strategy

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANTHROPOLOGY; DISEASE; ELDERLY POPULATION; PUBLIC HEALTH; STRATEGIC APPROACH;

RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

DENMARK;

EID: 84943199732     PISSN: 0144686X     EISSN: 14691779     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0144686X14000245     Document Type: Article

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