Environmental demands associated with community mobility in older adults with and without mobility disabilities

Physical Therapy

Volumn 82, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 670-681

  Shumway Cook, Anne ^a   Patla, Aftab E ^a   Stewart, Anita ^a   Ferrucci, Luigi ^a   Ciol, Marcia A ^a   Guralnik, Jack M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Disability; Environment; Mobility

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CANADA; CLIMBING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; WALKING;

EID: 0036306008     PISSN: 00319023     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ptj/82.7.670     Document Type: Article

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