Social disengagement and incident cognitive decline in community-dwelling elderly persons.

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Published in Ann Intern Med on August 03, 1999

Authors

S S Bassuk1, T A Glass, L F Berkman

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Health and Social Behavior, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02120, USA. sbassuk@hsph.harvard.edu

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