Stabilisation of health as the centre point of a health psychology of ageing.
Current health psychological theories and research mainly cover improvement of health, recovery from illness or maintenance of health. With this theoretical manuscript, we argue that in ageing societies in which chronic illness and multimorbidity become the norm rather than the exception, this focus...
| Published in: | Psychology & Health Vol. 30; no. 6; pp. 732 - 750 |
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| Format: | Journal Article |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Jun2015
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