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Psychosocial Factors in Healthy Ageing

Longitudinal associations between social connections and subjective wellbeing in the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing

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Pages 686-698 | Received 29 Jul 2013, Accepted 20 Oct 2014, Published online: 04 Dec 2014

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