Connecting future evacuation to current recovery: Saving the lives of older people in the next catastrophe

Generations

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 49-52

  Jenkins, Pamela ^a   Laska, Shirley ^b   Williamson, Gretchen ^c  

^a Department of African and African Diaspora Studies   (United States)

^b Center for Hazards Assessment Responseand Technology (Chart)   (United States)

^c NONE

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