'If we are going to include them we have to do it before we die': Norwegian seniors' views of including seniors with intellectual disability in senior centres

Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 583-593

  Ingvaldsen, Anne Kristin ^a   Balandin, Susan ^a  

^a MOLDE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE   (Norway)

Author keywords

Ageing; Focus groups; Inclusion; Intellectual disability; Senior centre

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053933756     PISSN: 13602322     EISSN: 14683148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-3148.2011.00636.x     Document Type: Article

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