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Are we equipped to rehabilitate old people?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 November 2008

GP Mulley
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine for the Elderly, St James's University Hospital, Leeds LS9 7TF, UK.
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Abstract

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1991

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