Impaired awareness, behavior disturbance, and caregiver burden in Alzheimer disease

Alzheimer Disease and Associated Disorders

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 248-253

  Rymer, Susan ^a   Salloway, Stephen ^a   Norton, Lauren ^a   Malloy, Paul ^a   Correia, Stephen ^a   Monast, Diane ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anosognosia; Awareness of deficit; Behavioral disturbance; Dementia; Disinhibition; Insight

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CAREGIVER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STRESS;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AWARENESS; CAREGIVERS; COST OF ILLNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0036816217     PISSN: 08930341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00002093-200210000-00006     Document Type: Article

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