Older people and climate change: Vulnerability and health effects

Generations

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 19-25

  Filiberto, David ^a   Wethington, Elaine ^a   Pillemer, Karl ^a   Wells, Nancy M ^a   Wysocki, Mark ^b   Parise, Jennifer True ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b Institute for the Study of the Continents   (United States)

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