Quality of life in dementia: Conceptual and practical issues

Dementia 3Ed

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 215-228

  Black, Betty S ^a   Rabins, Peter V ^a  

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

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