AuthorIezzoni, Lisa I
TitleWhen walking fails [electronic resource] : mobility problems of adults with chronic conditions / Lisa I. Iezzoni
Imprint Berkeley : University of California Press ; New York : Millbank Memorial Fund, c2003
Connect tohttp://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=90587
Descript xxii, 355 p. : ill

CONTENT

Mobility limits -- Who has mobility difficulties -- Sensations of walking -- Society's views of walking -- How people feel about their difficulty walking -- At home: with family and friends -- Outside home: at work and in communities -- People talking to their physicians -- Physicians talking to their patients -- Physical and occupational therapy and other approaches -- Ambulation aids -- Wheeled mobility -- Who will pay? -- What will be paid for? -- Final thoughts


SUBJECT

  1. Movement disorders
  2. Chronic diseases -- Complications
  3. Movement Disorders -- United States
  4. Chronic Disease -- United States
  5. Gait -- United States
  6. Movement Disorders -- psychology -- United States
  7. Public Policy -- United States
  8. Electronic books.