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The burden of providing care for Alzheimer's disease patients in Poland

✍ Scribed by Katarzyna Kosmala; Iwona Kloszewska

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2004
Tongue
English
Weight
40 KB
Volume
19
Category
Article
ISSN
0885-6230

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