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Depression in the elderly

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 January 2018

R. C. Baldwin
R. C. Baldwin*
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Manchester Royal Infirmary, Oxford Road, Manchester MI3 9BX
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 170 , Issue 3 , March 1997 , pp. 292 - 295
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Copyright © 1997 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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