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Recent life events as major predictors of mental health in the oldest old

✍ Scribed by Ildebrando Appollonio; Renzo Rozzini; Francesca Castelletti; Marco Trabucchi

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1998
Tongue: English
Weight: 65 KB
Volume: 13
Category: Article
ISSN: 0885-6230
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-1166(1998110)13:11<813::aid-gps858>3.0.co;2-o

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✦ Synopsis

How much dynamism and responsiveness to external changes can be found in the oldest old? Recently, Ravaglia et al. (1997) demonstrated that their functional status is still sensitive to both longlasting and recent determinants.

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