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Social support for elderly women with cancer: helpful of harmful? = Sociale steun aan oudere vrouwen met kanker: baat het of schaadt het?

Komproe, I.H., Rijken, P.M. Social support for elderly women with cancer: helpful of harmful? = Sociale steun aan oudere vrouwen met kanker: baat het of schaadt het? Utrecht: Universiteit Utrecht, Faculteit Geneeskunde, 1995. 213 p. Proefschrift Universiteit Utrecht.
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Ageing is often accompanied by negative changes which can affect the quantity or quality of social support. We therefore consider elderly women as a social risk category.
While social support can be expected to be less available in the elderly, it has been shown without exception that elderly people do not have lower levels of psychological well-being than younger people. These findings encouraged us to examine the impact of social support on psychological well-being in elderly women.