Introducing the "oldest old".

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• Publication year

  1985

• Venue

  The Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly Health and Society

• Publication date

  1985-06-02

• Fields of study

  Sociology, Medicine, History

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.2307/3349879PMID 3846808
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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