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The Current State of Social Gerontology in Poland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2008

Brunon Synak  and
Rex Taylor
Brunon Synak
Affiliation:
Department of Sociology, University of Gdansk
Rex Taylor
Affiliation:
MRC Medical Sociology Unit, Aberdeen
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Ageing & Society , Volume 4 , Issue 2 , June 1984 , pp. 219 - 228
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1984

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1 Piotrowski, Jerzy. Old People in the Family and Society. Warsaw, 1973 (English appendix and summary). [We have just learned of Jerzy Piotrowski's death – a great loss to social gerontology in Poland.]Google Scholar

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