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Caregiver burden among Japanese informal caregivers of cognitively impaired elderly in community settings

✍ Scribed by Yoshihisa Hirakawa; Masafumi Kuzuya; Hiromi Enoki; Jun Hasegawa; Akihisa Iguch

Publisher: Elsevier Science
Year: 2008
Tongue: English
Weight: 100 KB
Volume: 46
Category: Article
ISSN: 0167-4943
DOI: 10.1016/j.archger.2007.05.011

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