Renaming dementia - An East Asian perspective

International Psychogeriatrics

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 885-887

  Chiu, Helen Fung Kum ^a   Sato, Mitsumoto ^b   Kua, Ee Heok ^c   Lee, Min Soo ^d   Yu, Xin ^e   Ouyang, Wen Chen ^f   Yang, Yen Kuang ^g   Sartorius, Norman ^h  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b Japanese Society for the Elimination of Barriers to Mental Health   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d Korea University   (South Korea)

^e PEKING UNIVERSITY SIXTH HOSPITAL   (China)

^f CHANGHUA CHRISTIAN HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^g NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^h Association for the Improvement of Mental Health Programmes   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AWARENESS; CHINA; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DEMENTIA; DSM-5; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; PERCEPTION; REVIEW; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SOCIAL WELFARE; SOUTHEAST ASIA; STIGMA; ETHNOLOGY; FAR EAST; LANGUAGE; NOMENCLATURE;

AGED; DEMENTIA; FAR EAST; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 84899951432     PISSN: 10416102     EISSN: 1741203X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1041610214000453     Document Type: Review

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