Another minority group: Use of aged care day programs and community leisure services by older people with lifelong disability

Australasian Journal on Ageing

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 14-18

  Bigby, Christine ^a   Balandin, Susan ^b  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ageing and intellectual disability; Disability; Specialist and mainstream services

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248599663     PISSN: 14406381     EISSN: 17416612     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-6612.2005.00061.x     Document Type: Article

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