Elderly disempowerment and do the means justify the end?
Marcus Henning 1 , Gary Cheung 2 , Frederick Sundram 2
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1 Centre for Medical and Health Sciences Education, The University of Auckland, New Zealand
2 Department of Psychological Medicine, The University of Auckland, New Zealand
Correspondence to: Marcus Henning, Centre for Medical and Health Sciences Education, The University of Auckland, New Zealand. Email: m.henning@auckland.ac.nz
Journal of Primary Health Care 8(3) 271-276 https://doi.org/10.1071/HC16017
Published: 5 September 2016
Journal Compilation © Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners 2016.
This is an open access article licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
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