Costs of dementia care constitute a great part of the total costs of care for elderly. Because the prevalence of dementia is linked to increasing age, and the number of the oldest old is rising, the costs of dementia care will increase considerably in the forthcoming decades. In this review, researc
Dementia and dementia care
β Scribed by Ajit Shah
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 49 KB
- Volume
- 13
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0885-6230
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