Effects of Group-Home Care on Behavioral Symptoms, Quality of Life, and Psychotropic Drug Use in Patients With Frontotemporal Dementia

Journal of the American Medical Directors Association

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 335-337

  Yokota, Osamu ^a,b   Fujisawa, Yoshikatsu ^b   Takahashi, Jun ^b   Terada, Seishi ^a   Ishihara, Takeshi ^a   Nakashima, Hanae ^a   Oshima, Etsuko ^a   Kugo, Aki ^a   Ata, Toshie ^a   Ishizu, Hideki ^a,c   Kuroda, Shigetoshi ^a   Sasaki, Ken ^b  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Kinoko Espoir Hospital   (Japan)

^c Zikei Institute of Psychiatry   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORPROMAZINE; PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR;

BEHAVIOR DISORDER; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG USE; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; HOME CARE; HUMAN; LETTER; LONG TERM CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; RESIDENTIAL CARE; RESIDENTIAL HOME; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

EID: 33744819466     PISSN: 15258610     EISSN: 15389375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamda.2006.02.012     Document Type: Letter

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