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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*
Affiliation:
Institute of Gerontology, Ann Arbor, USA
*
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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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1993

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