The will to live: gender differences among elderly persons.

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• Publication year

  2001

• Venue

  Social Science & Medicine (1967)

• Publication date

  2001-03-01

• Fields of study

  Sociology, Medicine

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  DOI 10.1016/S0277-9536(00)00198-2PMID 11234867
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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