Nursing Home Physicians' Knowledge Of and Attitudes Toward Nonpharmacological Interventions for Treatment of Behavioral Disturbances Associated With Dementia

Journal of the American Medical Directors Association

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 491-498

  Cohen Mansfield, Jiska ^a,b,c   Jensen, Barbara ^a  

^a Research Institute on Aging of the Charles E Smith Life Communities   (United States)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

attitudes; BPSD; knowledge; Nonpharmacological interventions; physicians

Indexed keywords

PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT;

ADULT; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DEMENTIA; DEMOGRAPHY; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERNET; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; NURSING HOME; NURSING HOME PATIENT; NURSING HOME PERSONNEL; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

EID: 49849086763     PISSN: 15258610     EISSN: 15389375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamda.2008.04.009     Document Type: Article

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