‘They have started to call it their club’:A survey of staff views of dementia-specific day care centres in Ireland

Dementia

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 85-103

  Cahill, Suzanne ^a   Drury, Mary ^a   Lawlor, Brian ^b   O’connor, Deirdre ^c   O’connell, Maurice ^d  

^a Dementia Services Information and Development Centre   (Ireland)

^b ST JAMES S HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^c National Co ordinator of Care Services   (Ireland)

^d Alzheimer Society of Ireland   (Ireland)

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EID: 84993728863     PISSN: 14713012     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1471301203002001997     Document Type: Article

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