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Shea, D.M., Woods, A.J. (2019). Prospective Memory in Older Adults. In: Gu, D., Dupre, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Gerontology and Population Aging. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69892-2_712-1

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