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The findings provide first steps toward adoption of an approach to lifecourse health development for individuals with CP that emphasizes physical, mental, and emotional wellbeing and goals for desired social participation over the lifecourse.Implications for rehabilitationYoung adults with cerebral palsy experience lifecourse health development as a personal ongoing and dynamic process occurring in many contexts.Individuals with cerebral palsy continually adjust to changing contexts (adaptive process).Everyday experiences and experiential learning enable individuals with cerebral palsy to develop capacities for current and future healthy living including social participation."Timing" of opportunities and experiences is important for health development.
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