The health care needs of the black elderly: From well to frail

Health Care in the Black Community: Empowerment, Knowledge, Skills, and Collectivism

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 115-134

  McGadney Douglass, Brenda F ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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