Why green housing and green neighborhoods are important to the health and well-being of older adults

Generations

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 50-57

  Wells, Nancy M ^a   Laquatra, Joseph ^a  

^a the Bronfenbrenner Life Course Center   (United States)

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