Receiving a diagnosis of dementia:The experience over time

Dementia

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 397-410

  Vernooij Dassen, Myrra ^a   Derksen, Els ^a   Scheltens, Philip ^b   Moniz Cook, Esme ^c  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c Hull Memory Clinic   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

carer; disclosure; disease management; impact; personal report

Indexed keywords

EID: 43249162316     PISSN: 14713012     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1471301206067114     Document Type: Article

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