Towards a cultural and linguistic construction of late-life Dementia in an Urban African Population

Ageing in Africa: Sociolinguistic and Anthropological Approaches

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 21-42

  Ferreira, Monica ^a   Makoni, Sinfree ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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