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Caring for older people with dementia: is there a case for the use of multisensory environments?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 November 2008

KW Hope
KW Hope*
Affiliation:
University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
*
School of Nursing Studies, Coupland Building III, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK.
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Reviews in Clinical Gerontology , Volume 6 , Issue 2 , May 1996 , pp. 169 - 175
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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