Mental Health and the Elderly
- ISBN-10
- 0808916017
- ISBN-13
- 9780808916017
- Category
- Medical / Nursing / Gerontology
- Pages
- 328
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1984
- Publisher
- Grune & Stratton
- Author
- Beverly A. Hall
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