JAMDA
Volume 12, Issue 1 , Pages 22-28 , January 2011

Elders' Environs and Their End-Of-Life Preferences

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 The authors have no conflicts of interest.

PII: S1525-8610(09)00545-3

doi: 10.1016/j.jamda.2009.12.090

JAMDA
Volume 12, Issue 1 , Pages 22-28 , January 2011

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