Hospital-based palliative care and dementia, or what do we treat patients for and how do we do it?

Ethical Foundations of Palliative Care for Alzheimer Disease

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 80-96

  Rikkert, Marcel G M Olde ^a   Rigaud, Anne Sophie ^b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Paris Descartes University   (France)

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