Diogenes Syndrome - How should we manage it?

Journal of Mental Health

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 113-116

  Jackson, Graham A ^a  

^a HAIRMYRES HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGGRESSION; EMOTION; HUMAN; NEGLIGENCE; SHORT SURVEY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIETY;

EID: 0030947124     PISSN: 09638237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09638239718879     Document Type: Short Survey

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