Non-Pharmacological Treatment of Severe Dementia: An Overview

Severe Dementia

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 163-175

  Burns, Alistair ^a   Overshott, Ross ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b WYTHENSHAWE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

BPSD (Behavioural and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia); Exercise and activities based interventions; Nonverbal intervention aromatherapy; Reality orientation on here an now; Reminiscence therapy (RT) patients reliving their past

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889403871     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/0470010568.ch13     Document Type: Chapter

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