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Older Persons and Community Travel: The Effect of Visual Impairment

Published:1996-07 Issue:4 Volume:90 Page:302-313
ISSN:0145-482X
Container-title:Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness
language:en
Short-container-title:Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness

Author:

Long R.G.¹,Boyette L.W.²,Griffin-Shirley N.³

Affiliation:

1. Clayton County School System, Atlanta. (Mailing address: 722 horsey Circle, Lilbum, GA 30247

2. Research-health science specialist, Rehabilitation Research and Development Center, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 1670 Clairmont Road, Decatur, GA 30033

3. Texas Tech University, Department of Educational Psychology and Leadership, P.O. Box 41071, Lubbock, TX 79409-1071

Abstract

This article reports the results of a study that compared the community-travel habits and perceptions of older persons with visual impairments to those of older person without visual impairments. Factors that accounted for variations in the frequency of and satisfaction with travel in the visually impaired group were also explored. Implications of the findings for providers and consumers of rehabilitation services are discussed.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Rehabilitation,Ophthalmology

Link

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0145482X9609000405

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