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. 2005 Dec 24;331(7531):1548-51.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7531.1548.

What is successful ageing and who should define it?

Ann Bowling  1 , Paul Dieppe
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What is successful ageing and who should define it?

Ann Bowling et al. BMJ. .

Abstract

A definition of successful ageing needs to include elements that matter to elderly people

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Decline and fall? Goya's Les Vieilles (“Time of the Old Women”) Credit: MUSEE DES BEAUX-ARTS, FRANCE/GIRAUDON/BRIDGEMAN ART LIBRARY
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Most common definitions of successful ageing given by 854 people aged ≥50 in Britain
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