Dementia studies: a social science perspective
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Dementia studies: a social science perspective
There is much knowledge about dementia from the social sciences and one way of organising it is to see it as part of professional learning. This book is such a text: it provides social scientists with an insight into dementia knowledge and for those with practice experience it provides illustrations of how the social sciences can help to make sense of this work. There is room for such a text in...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Integrated Care
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1568-4156
DOI: 10.5334/ijic.579