Connections Between Vision, Hearing, and Cognitive Function in Old Age

Generations

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 39-45

  Wahl, Hans Werner ^a   Heyl, Vera ^a  

^a German Center for Research on Aging   (Germany)

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