Successful ageing in the oldest old: objectively and subjectively measured evidence from a population-based survey in Germany.
Despite rapid increase of people aged 80 and over, concepts of successful ageing (SA) are primarily examined for people below that age. Therefore, successful ageing was examined in a population-based representative sample of N = 1863 people aged 80 to 102 (NRW80+) with 11% living in institutionalize...
| Publicado en: | European Journal of Ageing Vol. 18; no. 4; pp. 537 - 548 |
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Springer Nature
Dec2021
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