Normal Aging and Cognitive Impairment Revisited
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Normal aging and cognitive impairment revisited.
In psychogeriatrics, clinicians are often confronted with the problem of whether a patient’s clinical disorder is associated with an organic brain syndrome. Such pathological cerebral changes and the associated impairments are often very difficult to distinguish from “normal,” nonpathological changes. Everyone has to cope with some limitations in old age. Having to cope with changes in social p...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Psychogeriatrics
سال: 1995
ISSN: 1041-6102,1741-203X
DOI: 10.1017/s1041610295002213