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The Value of Research to Practitioners in Work with the Elderly

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 November 2010

Neena L. Chappell
Neena L. Chappell
Affiliation:
University of Manitoba
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At the outset it should be stated, with training in the social sciences, (in sociology) and experience as a gerontology researcher which has been exclusively university based I have a commitment to a social science research perspective. While much of what will be said may well apply to biological and medical research, that is left to those experts to determine.

Type
Of General Interest
Information
Canadian Journal on Aging / La Revue canadienne du vieillissement , Volume 1 , Issue 1-2 , September 1982 , pp. 62 - 65
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Association on Gerontology 1982

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