General practitioners (GPs) and the primary care team are uniquely situated to play a central role both in the diagnosis and ongoing care of dementia. Anecdotal reports and empirical work suggest that GPs face several challenges in fulfilling this role. This paper describes the various roles GPs and
Dementia and the Over-75 Check: the role of the primary care nurse
โ Scribed by Heather Trickey; Pat Turton; Ian Harvey; Gordon Wilcock; Deborah Sharp
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 218 KB
- Volume
- 8
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0966-0410
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