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Restriction of activities, social isolation, and dementia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 August 2021

Perminder S. Sachdev*
Affiliation:
Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing, School of Psychiatry, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia Neuropsychiatric Institute, Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick, NSW, Australia
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© International Psychogeriatric Association 2021

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