Home-based interventions targeting persons with dementia: What is the evidence and where do we go from here?

Dementia Care: An Evidence-Based Approach

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 167-188

  Gitlin, Laura N ^a,b,c   Hodgson, Nancy A ^a   Choi, Scott Seung W ^c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NURSING   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84955390793     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-18377-0_11     Document Type: Chapter

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