Improving nursing home care for dementia: Is the environment the answer?

Aging and Mental Health

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 785-787

  Pot, Anne Margriet ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; DEMENTIA; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; NURSING HOME; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESIDENTIAL HOME; VERY ELDERLY; EDITORIAL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DEMENTIA; GROUP HOMES; HUMANS; NURSING HOMES; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84883617218     PISSN: 13607863     EISSN: 13646915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13607863.2013.828679     Document Type: Editorial

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