Implementing the NDS: Case studies from primary care

Journal of Dementia Care

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 26-29

  Koch, Tamar ^b   Iliffe, Steve ^a  

^a Department of Primarty ^*

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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