Insight in coping with dementia: Listening to the voice of those who suffer from it

Aging and Mental Health

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 115-118

  Droes R M ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; CONFABULATION; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEMENTIA; EDITORIAL; EMOTION; HUMAN; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHODYNAMICS;

EID: 33947420173     PISSN: 13607863     EISSN: 13646915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13607860601154658     Document Type: Editorial

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