Introduction: Successful aging as a twenty-first- century obsession

Successful Aging as a Contemporary Obsession: Global Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 1-23

  Lamb, Sarah ^a   Robbins Ruszkowski, Jessica ^b   Corwin, Anna I ^c  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SAINT MARY'S COLLEGE   (United States)

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