Emergency preparedness and response: Health and social policy implications for older adults

Generations

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 66-74

  Elmore, Diane L ^a   Brown, Lisa M ^b  

^a AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

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