Clinical Comments: Agitation in Dementia of the Alzheimer’s me on a Geropsychiatric Inpatient Unit

Clinical Gerontologist

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 57-66

  Rashti, Denise J ^a   Kunik, Mark E ^a   Molinari, Victor ^b   Orengo, Claudia A ^a   Workman, Richard ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

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EID: 85012558222     PISSN: 07317115     EISSN: 15452301     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J018v16n03_07     Document Type: Article

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