Outdoor and indoor falls as predictors of mobility limitation in older women.

Age Ageing

Department of Health Sciences, Finnish Centre for Interdisciplinary Gerontology, University of Jyväskylä, 40014 University of Jyväskylä, Finland.

Published: November 2009

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