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Chapter 43 - Working with Elderly Persons across Cultures

from Section 5 - Management with Special Groups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 March 2018

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Carl I. Cohen ,
Mehdi Elmouchtari  and
Iqbal Ahmed
Edited by
Dinesh Bhugra  and
Kamaldeep Bhui
Dinesh Bhugra
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychiatry, London
Kamaldeep Bhui
Affiliation:
Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry
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Textbook of Cultural Psychiatry , pp. 552 - 569
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