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Participatory Action Research With OlderAdults: Key Principles in Practice Thomas Blair, BA, MS (Cand.), MD (Cand.), Meredith Minkler, DrPH, MPH
The Gerontologist, Volume 49, Issue 5, 1 October 2009, Pages 651–662,https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnp049Published: 02 June 2009 Article history
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AbstractPurpose:�Although participatory action research (PAR) is increasingly
viewed as an important complement to traditional investigator-driven
research, relatively little PAR has taken place in which older adults have
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