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Nursing Elderly People: the Growing Base of Knowledge

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2008

Annie T. Altschul
Affiliation:
Emeritus Professor, Department of Nursing Studies, University of Edinburgh.

Abstract

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1988

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