Reversible dementia - The implications of a fall in prevalence

Age and Ageing

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 544-545

  Clarfield, A Mark ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; BENZODIAZEPINE;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMORBIDITY; CYANOCOBALAMIN DEFICIENCY; DATA ANALYSIS; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DRUG USE; EDITORIAL; ELDERLY CARE; FOLLOW UP; GERIATRIC CARE; HUMAN; HYPOTHYROIDISM; NEUROIMAGING; OUTPATIENT CARE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS;

DEMENTIA; HUMANS; PREVALENCE; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION;

EID: 28244493500     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: 14682834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afi203     Document Type: Editorial

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