Securing the elderly body: Dementia, surveillance, and the politics of “aging in place”

Surveillance and Society

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 252-269

  Kenner, Alison Marie ^a  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

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