Interpreting senility: Cross-cultural perspectives

Care Management Journals

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 145-150

  Traphagan, John W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Alzheimer's; Culture; Japan; Moral discourse; Senile dementia

Indexed keywords

AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONFUSION; CULTURAL FACTOR; DISORIENTATION; ETHNOGRAPHY; HUMAN; JAPAN; MORALITY; MULTIINFARCT DEMENTIA; NOMENCLATURE; SENESCENCE; SENILITY; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; UNITED STATES;

AGED; AGING; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CULTURE; DEMENTIA; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; JAPAN; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33645750431     PISSN: 15210987     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1891/cmaj.6.3.145     Document Type: Article

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