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Management of the dementias

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 November 2008

Joyce Almeida  and
Eamonn Fottrell
Joyce Almeida*
Affiliation:
Guy's Hospital
Eamonn Fottrell
Affiliation:
Tooting Bec Hospital, London, UK
*
Joyce Almeida, Senior Registrar in Psychogeriatrics, York Clinic, Guy's Hospital, London SE1, UK.
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Psychiatry of old age
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Reviews in Clinical Gerontology , Volume 1 , Issue 3 , August 1991 , pp. 267 - 281
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1991

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