(SALT LAKE CITY)—Diana Kuh, Ph.D., has a simple description for healthy aging: Keeping moving, keeping your marbles, and keeping your spirits up. Kuh, a British academician and researcher who is one ...

Life course scholars have theorised the relationship between individual life trajectories and geographic phenomena such as migration, partnering, reproduction and locational choice. They have engaged ...

Existing research on the life course origins of adult health has extensively examined the influence of childhood socioeconomic conditions, family structure, and exposure to trauma. Left unexplored are ...

This paper provides clear definitions of health disparities and health equity and consistently applies a health equity lens to oncology research and practice with older adults, particularly within ...

Frailty threatens older individuals because it increases their vulnerability to detrimental health outcomes, such as falling, ...

The onset and severity of disability – affecting either physical or mental health – profoundly impacts the lives of people and their families and incurs large economic and societal costs in terms of ...

I. Epistemological and methodological issues -- On the autonomy of the biographical method / Franco Ferrarotti -- From the life-history approach to the transformation of sociological practice / Daniel ...