Chinese dementia specialist education program: Training chinese american health care professionals as dementia experts

Home Health Care Services Quarterly

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 67-86

  Lombardo, Nancy B Emerson ^a   Wu, Bei ^b   Hohnstein, Jennifer K ^d   Chang, Kun ^c  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WELLESLEY COLLEGE   (United States)

^c National Asian Pacific Center on Aging   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Chinese American communities; Culturally competent services; Dementia; Dementia awareness; Dementia experts; Dementia training; Education; Health care providers; Outreach

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; CHINA; CLINICAL TRIAL; DEMENTIA; EDUCATION; ELDERLY CARE; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; IN SERVICE TRAINING; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; ASIAN AMERICANS; BOSTON; CHINA; DEMENTIA; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HEALTH SERVICES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; INSERVICE TRAINING; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0036052169     PISSN: 01621424     EISSN: 15450856     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J027v21n01_04     Document Type: Article

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