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Marriage relationships of older people

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 November 2008

Janet Askham
Janet Askham*
Affiliation:
Age Concern Institute of Gerontology, King's College London, UK
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Janet Askham, Deputy Director, Age Concern Institute of Gerontology, King's College, London, Cornwall House Annexe, Waterloo Road, London SEI 8TS, UK.
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Social and psychological gerontology
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Reviews in Clinical Gerontology , Volume 4 , Issue 3 , August 1994 , pp. 261 - 268
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1994

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