Profile and management of patients at a memory clinic

South African Medical Journal

Volumn 100, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 449-451

  Kalula, Sebastiana Zimba ^a   Ferreira, Monica ^a   Thomas, Kevin G F ^a   de Villiers, Linda ^a   Joska, John A ^a   Geffen, Leon N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; CHLORPROMAZINE; HALOPERIDOL; THIORIDAZINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY CARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEMORY DISORDER; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT REFERRAL; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RACE DIFFERENCE; RISK FACTOR; SOUTH AFRICA; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; DEMOGRAPHY; MEMORY DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIOECONOMICS; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DEMENTIA; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 77954505295     PISSN: 02569574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7196/samj.3384     Document Type: Article

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