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Overcoming barriers to a diagnosis of dementia: can we do it?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 May 2020

Marie Poole*
Affiliation:
Population Health Sciences Institute, Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
Jane Wilcock
Affiliation:
Department of Primary Care & Population Health, University College London, London, UK
Greta Rait
Affiliation:
Department of Primary Care & Population Health, University College London, London, UK
Henry Brodaty
Affiliation:
Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Louise Robinson
Affiliation:
Population Health Sciences Institute, Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK

Abstract

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© International Psychogeriatric Association 2020

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