Ending elder homelessness: One city's solution

Journal of Long Term Home Health Care (United States)

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 38-47

  Duffy, Mary E ^a   Bissonnette, Anna M ^b   O'Brien, Eileen ^b   Townsend, Donna ^c  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Committee to End Elder Homelessness Inc ^*  (United States)

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