JAMDA
Volume 9, Issue 7 , Pages 491-498 , September 2008

Nursing Home Physicians' Knowledge Of and Attitudes Toward Nonpharmacological Interventions for Treatment of Behavioral Disturbances Associated With Dementia

  • Jiska Cohen-Mansfield, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Research Institute on Aging of the Charles E. Smith Life Communities, Rockville, MD
    • Tel-Aviv University Sackler Faculty of Medicine and Herczeg Institute on Aging, Tel Aviv, Israel
    • George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, DC
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to Jiska Cohen-Mansfield, PhD, ABPP, Research Institute on Aging, Charles E. Smith Life Communities, 6121 Montrose Road, Rockville, MD 20852
    • ,
  • Barbara Jensen, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Research Institute on Aging of the Charles E. Smith Life Communities, Rockville, MD

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 This study was funded in part by an AMDA Foundation LTC Research Network Seeds Grant.

PII: S1525-8610(08)00134-5

doi: 10.1016/j.jamda.2008.04.009

JAMDA
Volume 9, Issue 7 , Pages 491-498 , September 2008

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