Aged and dependency ratios among autism, intellectual disability and other disabilities: 10-year trend analysis

Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 523-528

  Lin, Jin Ding ^a   Lin, Lan Ping ^a   Sung, Chang Lin ^a   Wu, Jia Ling ^b  

^a NATIONAL DEFENSE MEDICAL CENTER   (Taiwan)

^b Chung Hua Foundation for Persons with Intellectual Disabilities   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Aged dependency ratio; Child dependency ratio; Dependency ratio; Disability; Index of aging

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; AUTISM; BALANCE IMPAIRMENT; CHILD; DEFORMITY; DISABILITY; EPILEPSY; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; INDEPENDENCE; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; LIMB DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSIS; SENILE DEMENTIA; SPEECH DISORDER; TAIWAN; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; WORK CAPACITY;

EID: 77957333766     PISSN: 17509467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rasd.2010.06.018     Document Type: Article

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