Social characteristics and health status of exceptionally long-lived Americans in the Health and Retirement Study.

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Published in J Am Geriatr Soc on December 01, 2011

Authors

Jennifer A Ailshire1, Hiram Beltrán-Sánchez, Eileen M Crimmins

Author Affiliations

1: Davis School of Gerontology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA. ailshire@usc.edu

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