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Bereavement and mental health in the elderly

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 November 2008

Colin Murray Parkes
Colin Murray Parkes*
Affiliation:
The London Hospital Medical College, UK
*
Dr CM Parkes, Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry, The London Hospital Medical College, Turner Street, London E1 2AD, UK.
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Psychiatry of old age
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Reviews in Clinical Gerontology , Volume 2 , Issue 1 , February 1992 , pp. 45 - 51
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1992

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