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Drug treatment of Alzheimer’s disease

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 October 2002

Roy W Jones
Affiliation:
The Research Institute for the Care of the Elderly, Bath, UK.

Extract

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is an international problem of enormous significance. The human and financial cost to the sufferers, their families and friends is huge, matched by the costs to health and social services in all developed countries and, increasingly, elsewhere.

Type
Neuropsychiatry of old Age
Copyright
© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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