Physical Fitness and Adults with Mental Retardation
- 1 July 1993
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Nature in Sports Medicine
- Vol. 16 (1) , 23-56
- https://doi.org/10.2165/00007256-199316010-00004
Abstract
The deinstitutionalisation movement of the past 25 years has focused on the placement of people with mental retardation into community-based settings. There is a need for exercise- and health-related...Keywords
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