Aging trends - Making an invisible population visible: The elderly in Bangladesh

Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 361-378

  Kabir, Zarina Nahar ^a,b   Szebehely, Marta ^c   Tishelman, Carol ^b   Chowdhury, Ahmed Mushtaque Raza ^d   Höjer, Bengt ^b   Winblad, Bengt ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM GERONTOLOGY RESEARCH CENTER   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d Research and Evaluation Division   (Bangladesh)

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EID: 0000377501     PISSN: 01693816     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006536217913     Document Type: Article

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