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Cognitive impairments and activities of daily living in the Alzheimer’s disease spectrum: the need to consider cognition and functional skills as separate related domains

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 September 2022

Philip D. Harvey*
Affiliation:
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA Bruce W. Carter VA Medical Center, Miami, FL, USA

Abstract

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Copyright
© The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of International Psychogeriatric Association

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