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Setting goals in geriatric rehabilitation and measuring their attainment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 November 2008

Kenneth Rockwood*
Affiliation:
Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada
*
Dr. Kenneth Rockwood, Division of Geriatric Medicine, Dalhousie University, 1763 Robie Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, B3H 3G2.

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Rehabilitation
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1994

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