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The care of patients with dementia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 November 2008

Constantine G Lyketsos  and
Cynthia Steele
Constantine G Lyketsos*
Affiliation:
The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland and Copper Ridge, Sykesville, Maryland, USA
Cynthia Steele
Affiliation:
The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland and Copper Ridge, Sykesville, Maryland, USA
*
Constantine G Lyketsos Neuropsychiatry and Memory Group, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21287-5371, USA.
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Psychiatry of old age
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Reviews in Clinical Gerontology , Volume 5 , Issue 2 , May 1995 , pp. 179 - 197
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995

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