Sexuality and older people: Revisiting the assumptions

Educational Gerontology

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 1995, Pages 497-513

  Deacon, Susan ^a   Minichiello, Victor ^a   Plummer, David ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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EID: 21844505242     PISSN: 03601277     EISSN: 15210472     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0360127950210509     Document Type: Article

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