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A step forward: from conceptualizing to measuring successful aging at work

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2020

Stanimira K. Taneva Open the ORCID record for Stanimira K. Taneva [Opens in a new window]  and
Georgi P. Yankov
Stanimira K. Taneva*
Affiliation:
Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Nottingham, UK
Georgi P. Yankov
Affiliation:
Development Dimensions International, USA
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*Corresponding author. Email: Stanimira.Taneva@nottingham.ac.uk
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Industrial and Organizational Psychology , Volume 13 , Issue 3 , September 2020 , pp. 417 - 421
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© The Author(s), 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology.

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