Little is known about the prevalence of psychiatric illness in elderly people with mental handicaps. Behaviour disorders occur less often in the elderly compared to younger groups, but which other illnesses they are vulnerable to or protected from is unknown. Associated characteristics are not clear
Use of buses by elderly and handicapped people
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1983
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 144 KB
- Volume
- 14
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0003-6870
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