Successful Aging: The Contribution of Early‐Life and Midlife Risk Factors

OBJECTIVES: To test whether early‐life factors (education, height, father's social position) and midlife social, behavioral, and psychosocial factors were associated with entering older age without disease and with good functioning.

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