SOCIAL SUPPORT AND HEALTH AMONG ELDERLY KUWAITIS

The aim of this study was to examine differences in several aspects of health between Kuwaiti men and women aged 60 years and over across three age categories (60–69, 70–79, 80+ years). The relationships between several social support variables, somatic symptoms and systolic and diastolic blood pres...

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Volume:	46
Main Author:	AL-KANDARI, YAGOUB Y CREWS, DOUGLAS E
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Place of publication:	Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 01.07.2014 CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
published in:	Journal of biosocial science Vol. 46; no. 4; pp. 518 - 530
Data of publication:	20140700
ISSN:	0021-9320 1469-7599
EISSN:	1469-7599
Alternate Title:	Social support and health of elderly Kuwaitis Y. Y. Al-Kandari and D. E. Crews
Discipline:	Sociology & Social History Biology Social Sciences (General)
Subjects:	Articles Social Sciences Demography Life Sciences & Biomedicine Social Sciences, Biomedical Public, Environmental & Occupational Health Biomedical Social Sciences Science & Technology Blood Pressure Humans Middle Aged Social Support Aged, 80 and over Adult Female Male Aged Health Status Kuwait Hypertension - physiopathology Index Medicus Kuwait MORTALITY POPULATION LONELINESS RISK-FACTORS PHYSICAL-DISABILITY MEN OLDER DEATH GENDER-DIFFERENCES MARITAL-STATUS
Online Access:	Fulltext
Database:	Social Sciences Citation Index Web of Science - Social Sciences Citation Index - 2014 Web of Knowledge Web of Science MEDLINE (Ovid) PubMed MEDLINE MEDLINE MEDLINE Medline CrossRef MEDLINE - Academic Database information Databases - DBIS