Deficient health and social services for elderly people with learning disabilities.
Elderly people with learning disabilities have greater psychiatric morbidity than younger individuals, but a previous report has suggested that the majority of the former do not receive treatment All people with learning disabilities aged 65 years and over living in Leicestershire, England (n = 134)...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Intellectual Disability Research Vol. 41; no. 4; pp. 331 - 339 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Aug1997
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