Primary Care Practitioners on the Front Line of Alzheimer's Disease Care

Journal of the American Medical Directors Association

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Oustric, Stephane ^a   Rouge Bugat, Marie Eve ^a   Vellas, Bruno ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

^b TOULOUSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; CAREGIVER; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMORBIDITY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; EDITORIAL; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT REFERRAL; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; RISK MANAGEMENT;

EID: 80053201239     PISSN: 15258610     EISSN: 15389375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamda.2011.06.013     Document Type: Editorial

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