Health Consequences of Major Role Losses in Later Life
- 1 December 1984
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Research on Aging
- Vol. 6 (4) , 469-489
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0164027584006004002
Abstract
Based on a subsample of older adults from the Longitudinal Retirement History Study, a generic model for identifying the structural relation between poor physical health and five exogenous variables was validated by the LISREL approach. Findings show that elderly persons who have a favorable level of physical health in later life are those who experienced better health at the early stage of the aging process, irrespective of major role losses, economic status, and age.Keywords
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