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Quality of institutional life

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 November 2008

Sheila M Peace
Sheila M Peace*
Affiliation:
School of Health, Welfare & Community Education, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
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Sheila M Peace, Lecturer, School of Health, Welfare & Community Education, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes MK76AA, UK.
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Social and psychological gerontology
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Reviews in Clinical Gerontology , Volume 3 , Issue 2 , May 1993 , pp. 187 - 193
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1993

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