Roles of age and familiarity in learning health information

Educational Gerontology

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 695-710

  Brown, Scott C ^a   Park, Denise C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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EID: 0036742579     PISSN: 03601277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03601270290099723     Document Type: Article

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