With Nature and the Outdoors as a Resource:A Case of a One-Footed Elderly Man in a Wheelchair
By: Linn Terese
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Language: English
Page range: 24 - 30
Published on: Apr 10, 2015
Published by: University of Physical Education in Warsaw
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