Severe dementia: A review on diagnoses, therapeutic management and ethical issues

Abstract North American data show that in the year 2000 around 4.5 million people had a diagnosis of dementia and more than a half were at moderate or severe stages of the disease. There is inevitable cognitive and functional decline caused by all etiologies of irreversible dementia as well as many...

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Main Authors: Lilian Schafirovits-Morillo, Cláudia Kimie Suemoto
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associação Neurologia Cognitiva e do Comportamento
Series:Dementia & Neuropsychologia
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1980-57642010000300158&lng=en&tlng=en