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Reflections: success and disappointment - octogenarians' current and retrospective perceptions
Author(s)	G Clare Wenger
Journal title	Health Care in Later Life, vol 2, no 4, November 1997
Pages	pp 213-226
Keywords	Nonagenarians ; Quality of life ; Health [elderly] ; Attitude ; Social surveys ; Longitudinal surveys ; Wales.
Annotation	This article is based on the responses of 52 well people aged 81 years and over, who were living in the community in 1995, to a guided interview eliciting their attitudes to their experiences of life. The interviewees were participants in the Bangor Longitudinal Study of Ageing. It focuses on salient life domains and conceptions of successful ageing and draws attention to variations in responses, including those associated with gender and marital status. The findings show some areas of consensus and others that demonstrate a wide range of response, but the importance of health and mobility was paramount.
Accession Number	CPA-980212235 A
Classmark	BBR: F:59: CC: DP: 3F: 3J: 9
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