## Abstract ## Background Dementia patients suffer from the progressive deterioration of cognitive and functional abilities. Instrumental disabilities usually appear in the earlier stages of the disease while basic disabilities appear in the more advanced stages. In order to differentiate between
Motor function and disability in the dementias
โ Scribed by Louise M Waite; G. Anthony Broe; David A Grayson; Helen Creasey
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 67 KB
- Volume
- 15
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0885-6230
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