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Current provision and effectiveness of day care services for people with dementia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 November 2008

Julie SM Curran
Julie SM Curran*
Affiliation:
Dementia Services Development Centre, University of Stirling, Stirling, UK
*
Julie SM Curran, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Morningside Place, Edinburgh EH10 5HF, UK.
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Psychiatry of old age
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Reviews in Clinical Gerontology , Volume 5 , Issue 3 , August 1995 , pp. 313 - 320
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995

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