Microchips Will Decrease the Burden on the Family of Elderly People with Wandering Dementia

International Medical Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 25-27

  Harada, Toshihide ^a   Ishizaki, Fumiko ^b   Nitta, Yumiko ^c   Nitta, Kohsaku ^d   Shimohara, Atsushi ^d   Tsukue, Ichiro ^d   Wu, Xian ^e   Cheng, Weiping ^e  

^a HIROSHIMA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF HIROSHIMA   (Japan)

^c Suzugamine Women's College   (Japan)

^d Senogawa Hospital   (Japan)

^e University of Traditional Chinese Medicine   (China)

Author keywords

IC tags; Microchips; Wandering dementia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; ELDERLY CARE; FAMILY CENTERED CARE; FEMALE; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; HUMAN; IMPLANT; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRE; TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 41749090462     PISSN: 13412051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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