Environmental perspectives on ageing

The SAGE Handbook of Social Gerontology

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 111-124

  Wahl, Hans Werner ^a   Oswald, Frank ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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EID: 84949979080     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4135/9781446200933.n8     Document Type: Chapter

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