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  1. School of Social Work, Adelphi University, Garden City, NY, USA

    Daniel B. Kaplan

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  1. Population Division, UN Dept of Economic Social Affairs Population Division, New York, NY, USA

    Danan Gu

  2. School of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, USA

    Matthew E. Dupre

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  1. School of Social Work, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

    Xiaoling Xiang

  2. School of Social Work, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

    Emily Nicklett

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Kaplan, D.B. (2019). Geriatric Social Workers. In: Gu, D., Dupre, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Gerontology and Population Aging. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69892-2_296-1

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