Nursing homes and assisted living facilities: Planning and decision making for sheltering in place or evacuation

Generations

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 29-33

  Hyer, Kathryn ^a   Polivka West, Lumarie ^b   Brown, Lisa M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b Florida Health Care Association   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

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