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Methodology for Establishing a Community-Wide Life Laboratory for Capturing Unobtrusive and Continuous Remote Activity and Health Data
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Methodology for Establishing a Community-Wide Life Laboratory for Capturing Unobtrusive and Continuous Remote Activity and Health Data

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Life satisfaction and activity theory: a multidimensional approach

D R Hoyt, M A Kaiser, G R Peters

    Journal of Gerontology
    |November 1, 1980
    PubMed

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