Rapid needs assessments for older adults in disasters

Generations

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 10-15

  Burnett, Jason ^a   Dyer, Carmel B ^a   Pickins, Sabrina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

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