Factors Associated With Long-term Institutionalization of Older People With Dementia: Data From the Canadian Study of Health and Aging
The Journals of Gerontology Series APublished 1 November 2001
Réjean Hébert, Marie‐France Dubois, Christina Wolfson, Larry W. Chambers, Carole Cohen
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Screening caregivers for burden and depression and designing interventions to decrease the consequences of behavioral disturbance on caregivers would be relevant avenues to explore to decrease institutionalization of people with dementia.
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Screening caregivers for burden and depression and designing interventions to decrease the consequences of behavioral disturbance on caregivers would be relevant avenues to explore to decrease institutionalization of people with dementia.
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