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The Travel Needs of Older People and What Happens When People Give-Up Driving

Charles Musselwhite Orcid Logo, Hebba Haddad

Transport, Travel and Later Life, Volume: 10, Pages: 93 - 115

Swansea University Author: Charles Musselwhite Orcid Logo

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DOI (Published version): 10.1108/S2044-994120170000010003

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The population of older people in the ‘western world’ is increasing both in number, as well a percentage of the overall population. Changes in lifestyle as a result of increased longevity and better health and social care mean that older people are being mobile later on in their life than ever befor...

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Published in: Transport, Travel and Later Life
ISBN: 978-1-78714-624-2 978-1-78714-623-5
ISSN: 2044-9941
Published: 2017
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