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From an aging person to an elegant senior: a humanistic approach to viewing older adults

By: Fung-Kei Cheng  
Open Access
|Oct 2020

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/fon-2020-0032 | Journal eISSN: 2544-8994 | Journal ISSN: 2097-5368
Language: English
Page range: 191 - 201
Submitted on: Oct 13, 2019
Accepted on: Nov 22, 2019
Published on: Oct 2, 2020
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