Beyond the relocation trauma in old age: New trends in elders’ residential decisions

New Dynamics in Old Age: Individual, Environmental and Societal Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 127-152

  Oswald, Frank ^a   Rowles, Graham D ^a  

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