Injury Prevention for Older Adults.
Part of a special issue on public health and aging. The writers document the public health “burden” of injuries to older adults and discuss interventions aimed to tackle the primary causes of fatal and nonfatal injuries among this population. They consider the three most common causes of injury an...
| Published in: | Generations Vol. 29; no. 2; pp. 60 - 65 |
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American Society on Aging
Summer 2005
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