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Journal of Aging Research
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 435826, 11 pages
Neighborhood Influences on Late Life Cognition in the ACTIVE Study
Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA
Received 2 April 2012; Revised 10 June 2012; Accepted 30 June 2012
Academic Editor: Allison A. M. Bielak
Copyright © 2012 Shannon M. Sisco and Michael Marsiske. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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