Training early Alzheimer patients to use a mobile phone

Acta Neurologica Belgica

Volumn 102, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 114-121

  Lekeu, Françoise ^a   Wojtasik, Vinciane ^a   Van der Linden, Martial ^a   Salmon, Eric ^a  

^a CHU Centre Ville   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Cognitive rehabilitation; Daily living activities; Errorless learning; Spaced retrieval

Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; CONSULTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DISORIENTATION; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LEARNING; MALE; REHABILITATION; TELECOMMUNICATION; TRAINING;

EID: 0036400142     PISSN: 03009009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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