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Engrossment and Perspective in Later Life

A Developmental-Field Approach

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Contributions to the Psychobiology of Aging

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Aging is a process that progressively debilitates the human organism.

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Kastenbaum, R. (1965). Engrossment and Perspective in Later Life. In: Kastenbaum, R. (eds) Contributions to the Psychobiology of Aging. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-39847-0_1

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