Why is ageing so unequal?

Unequal Ageing: The Untold Story of Exclusion in Old Age

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 141-158

  Walker, Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

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