Hospice: Putting the heart back into dementia care

Journal of Dementia Care

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 14-15

  Tapley, Michael ^a   Regan, Ann ^a   Jolley, David ^b  

^a Willow Wood Hospice   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

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