Geriatric Nursing
Volume 24, Issue 1 , Pages 26-31 , January 2003

An anthropological perspective of alzheimer disease

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doi: 10.1067/mgn.2003.15

Geriatric Nursing
Volume 24, Issue 1 , Pages 26-31 , January 2003

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