Moving towards culturally competent dementia care: Have we been barking up the wrong tree?

Reviews in Clinical Gerontology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 39-46

  Mackenzie, Jenny ^a   Bartlett, Ruth ^a   Downs, Murna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING; CLINICAL FEATURE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL BIAS; CULTURAL FACTOR; CULTURAL SENSITIVITY; CULTURAL VALUE; DEMENTIA; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNIC GROUP; HEALTH BELIEF; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMAN; LONG TERM MEMORY; MYSTICISM; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RELIGIOUS GROUP; REVIEW; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SPIRITUAL HEALING; STIMULATION;

EID: 33746116457     PISSN: 09592598     EISSN: 14699036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0959259805001644     Document Type: Review

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