Barriers to Qualitative Dementia Research: The Elephant in the Room

Qualitative Health Research

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 1013-1019

  Carmody, John ^a   Traynor, Victoria ^a   Marchetti, Elena ^a  

^a WOLLONGONG HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

dementia; geriatrics; health care, economics of; research, qualitative; resource allocation

Indexed keywords

AGING; DEMENTIA; HUMAN; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

AGING; DEMENTIA; HUMANS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

EID: 84930535827     PISSN: 10497323     EISSN: 15527557     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1049732314554099     Document Type: Article

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