Working in the Dark: The State of Palliative Care for Patients with Severe Dementia

Generations

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 18-23

  Casarett, David A ^a   Karlawish, Jason ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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