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People with dementia can remember

Implications for care

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 January 2018

D. D. R. Williams*
Affiliation:
Cefn Coed Hospital, Swansea, Department of Old Age Psychiatry, Chase Farm Hospital, Enfield
Jane Garner
Affiliation:
Cefn Coed Hospital, Swansea, Department of Old Age Psychiatry, Chase Farm Hospital, Enfield
*
D. D. R. Williams, Consultant Psychiatrist, Cefn Coed Hospital, Swansea SA20GH. Tel: 01792 561155. Fax: 01792 580740
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Abstract

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Copyright
Copyright © 1998 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

Footnotes

See pp. 425–428, this issue.

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