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Social participation as an indicator of successful aging: an overview of concepts and their associations with health

This paper overviews the three concepts of social participation, their methods of measurement and their associations with health in older adults. We present a model of social participation that incorporates all three concepts of social participation and their effects on health. We argue that the use of a measure that can be segmented into each of the three forms of social participation will predict more of the variance in health outcomes than any measure on its own.

Author & Year Published : Heather Douglas, Andrew Georgiou & Johanna Westbrook (7/10/2016)

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