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Mitigating the Risk of Late-Life Mental Health Problems for Veterans: Contributions of the Life Course Perspective to Emergency Management

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 August 2013

Maggie Gibson  and
Gloria Gutman
Maggie Gibson*
Affiliation:
Dr Gibson is a Psychologist with the Veterans Care Program, Parkwood Hospital, St. Joseph's Health Care London; an Associate Scientist with the Aging, Rehabilitation and Geriatric Care Research Program, Lawson Health Research Institute; and is on the Adjunct Clinical Faculty, Department of Psychology, University of Western Ontario; London, Ontario, Canada.
Gloria Gutman
Affiliation:
Dr Gutman is President, International Network for Prevention of Elder Abuse; Past President, International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics; and a Research Associate, Dr Tong Louie Living Lab, Gerontology Research Centre, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
*
Address correspondence and reprint requests to (e-mail maggie.gibson@sjhc.london.on.ca).
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Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness , Volume 7 , Issue 3 , June 2013 , pp. 332 - 335
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Copyright © Society for Disaster Medicine and Public Health, Inc. 2013 

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