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The goals of rehabilitation for older people

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 November 2008

Shah Ebrahim
Shah Ebrahim
Affiliation:
Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, London, UK.
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Reviews in Clinical Gerontology , Volume 4 , Issue 2 , May 1994 , pp. 93 - 95
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1994

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