Life-Course Approach to Chronic Disease: The Active and Healthy Aging Perspective

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 64, Issue 9, 2016, Pages e59-e61

  Scuteri, Angelo ^a   Lattanzio, Fabrizia ^b   Bernabei, Roberto ^c  

^a TOR VERGATA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico   (Italy)

^c FONDAZIONE POLICLINICO UNIVERSITARIO A GEMELLI IRCCS   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; HUMAN; LETTER; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LIFESPAN; NON COMMUNICABLE DISEASE;

EID: 84987835396     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jgs.14271     Document Type: Letter

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