Separating the local and the general in cross-cultural aging research

New Dynamics in Old Age: Individual, Environmental and Societal Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 343-359

  Daatland, Svein Olav ^a   Motel Klingebiel, Andreas ^a  

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DOI: 10.4324/9781315224077-19     Document Type: Chapter

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