Aging: The Health-Care Challenge
- ISBN-10
- 0803646518
- ISBN-13
- 9780803646513
- Series
- Aging
- Category
- Medical
- Pages
- 403
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2002-04-15
- Publisher
- F.A. Davis
- Author
- Carole Bernstein Lewis
Description
This classic textbook provides practitioners and students working in geriatric rehabilitation an interdisciplinary approach to the assessment and rehabilitative management of older persons. Clinically focused, the 4th edition reviews crucial information about the elderly people and suggests strategies for implementing practical rehabilitation goals in a variety of care settings.
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