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| Mortality and the attribution of health problems to aging among older adults | | Author(s) | William Rakowski, Tom Hickey |
| Journal title | American Journal of Public Health, vol 82, no 8, August 1992 |
| Pages | pp 1139-1141 |
| Keywords | Death ; Ill health ; Ageing process ; Longitudinal surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Attributing health problems to ageing may carry a risk of adverse health events. Of 1391 respondents to the US Longitudinal Study of Aging (LSOA) 1984-1988 who reported difficulty with one or more activities of daily living (ADLs), 72 attributed their impairment primarily to "old age". (OFFPRINT.) (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-020522209 A |
| Classmark | CW: CH: BG: 3J: 7T * |
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