Is the relationship between subjective age, depressive symptoms and activities of daily living bidirectional?

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 214, Issue , 2018, Pages 41-48

  Rippon, Isla ^a   Steptoe, Andrew ^b  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Activities of daily living; Age identity; Depression; ELSA; Subjective age

Indexed keywords

AGING POPULATION; ELDERLY POPULATION; FUTURE PROSPECT; HEALTH STATUS; LIVING STANDARD; MENTAL HEALTH; MULTIPLE REGRESSION;

ADL DISABILITY; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CENTER FOR EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES DEPRESSION SCALE; COGNITION; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MALE; SOCIAL PARTICIPATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; ENGLAND; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGY;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGE FACTORS; AGED; DEPRESSION; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 85052082031     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2018.08.013     Document Type: Article

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