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Lawton-Brody Instrumental Activities of Daily Living Scale

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Fish, J. (2017). Lawton-Brody Instrumental Activities of Daily Living Scale. In: Kreutzer, J., DeLuca, J., Caplan, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Clinical Neuropsychology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56782-2_1842-2

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