Assessment of behavioral symptoms in community-dwelling dementia patients

American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 26-30

  Weiner, Myron F ^a,b   Williams, Brent ^a   Risser, Richard C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMMUNITY CARE; DEMENTIA; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN;

EID: 0031031449     PISSN: 10647481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00019442-199705010-00004     Document Type: Article

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