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Don’t leave older people out of the digital world: NZ COVID Tracer app not always easy
Don’t leave older people out of the digital world: NZ COVID Tracer app not always easy
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Jenny Song is a senior nursing academic at Wintec. She is working on her PhD looking at ageing well and is concerned older people are easily overlooked in the COVID response
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