Leisure and ageing

A Handbook of Leisure Studies

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 231-249

  Harahousou, Yvonne ^a  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

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DOI: 10.1057/9780230625181     Document Type: Chapter

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