Solo but Not Alone: An Examination of Social and Help Networks among Community-Dwelling Older Adults without Close Family.
This study evaluates help sources for personal and health tasks of adults living in the community without a spouse or nearby children. Using data from the National Health and Aging Trends Study (NHATS), a nationally representative sample of Medicare beneficiaries ages 65 and over, we conducted a pop...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Applied Gerontology Vol. 42; no. 3; pp. 419 - 427 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Mar2023
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