Short-term effect of dementia disclosure: How patients and families describe the diagnosis [24]

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 54, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1968-1970

  Barrett, Anna M ^a,b   Keller, Margaret ^c   Damgaard, Paula ^c   Swerdlow, Russell H ^c  

^a KESSLER FOUNDATION   (United States)

^b RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANOSOGNOSIA; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; DEMENTIA; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FAMILY COUNSELING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE;

AGED; AWARENESS; CAREGIVERS; DEMENTIA; DISCLOSURE; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS;

EID: 33845508870     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2006.00992.x     Document Type: Letter

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