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Social support networks and formal help seeking: differences between applicants to social services and a nonapplicant

G K Auslander1, H Litwin

  • 1Paul Baerwald School of Social Work, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Journal of Gerontology
|May 1, 1990
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