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Ethnic minority needs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 November 2008

Shah Ebrahim*
Affiliation:
Departments of Health Care of the Elderly and Sociology Applied to Medicine, London Hospital Medical College, London
Sheila Hillier
Affiliation:
Departments of Health Care of the Elderly and Sociology Applied to Medicine, London Hospital Medical College, London
*
Professor Shah Ebrahim, Department of Health Care of the Elderly, The London Hospital, Bancroft Road, London E1 4DG, UK.

Abstract

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Type
Social and psychological gerontology
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1991

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