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Images of old age and aging: the state of the art

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 November 2008

WA Achenbaum
WA Achenbaum*
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Institute of Gerontology, Ann Arbor, USA
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Professor WA Achenbaum, Institute of Gerontology, University of Michigan, 300 North Ingalls, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-2007, USA.
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Social and psychological gerontology
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Reviews in Clinical Gerontology , Volume 3 , Issue 3 , August 1993 , pp. 295 - 300
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1993

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