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The older driver

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 November 2008

Desmond O'Neill
Desmond O'Neill*
Affiliation:
Meath Hospital, Dublin, Republic ofIreland
*
Age-Related Health Care, Meath Hospital, Dublin 8, Republic ofIreland.
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Reviews in Clinical Gerontology , Volume 6 , Issue 3 , August 1996 , pp. 295 - 302
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