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Psychosocial factors, wellbeing and distress

Help-seeking for psychological distress and its association with anxiety in the oldest old – results from the AgeQualiDe cohort study

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Pages 923-929 | Received 21 Aug 2019, Accepted 22 Jan 2020, Published online: 21 Feb 2020

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