Dementia care: mental health effects, intervention strategies, and clinical implications

Lancet Neurology

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 961-973

  Sörensen, Silvia ^a   Duberstein, Paul ^a   Gill, David ^a   Pinquart, Martin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITOR;

COGNITION; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEMENTIA; DISTRESS SYNDROME; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ETHNOLOGY; FAMILY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MENTAL HEALTH; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOEDUCATION; RACE; REVIEW; SOCIOECONOMICS; SPOUSE; WELLBEING;

ANIMALS; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DEMENTIA; HOME NURSING; HUMANS; MENTAL HEALTH; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 33749658552     PISSN: 14744422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1474-4422(06)70599-3     Document Type: Review

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