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Tube Feeding Old People*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 November 2010

Colin Powell
Colin Powell
Affiliation:
University of Manitoba
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Information
Canadian Journal on Aging / La Revue canadienne du vieillissement , Volume 12 , Issue 3 , Fall/automne 1993 , pp. 275 - 281
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Association on Gerontology 1993

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