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The situation of older homeless people

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 November 2008

Maureen Crane*
Affiliation:
University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
*
Maureen Crane, Department of Health Care for Elderly People, University of Sheffield, Community Sciences Centre, Northern General Hospital, Herries Road, Sheffield S5 7AU, UK.

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Social and psychological gerontology
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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