Screening of Dementia in Portuguese Primary Care: Methodology, Assessment Tools, and Main Results

The objectives of this article are as follows: (1) to describe the assessment protocol used to outline people with probable dementia in Primary Health Care; (2) to show the methodological design and procedure to obtain a representative sample of patients with probable dementia; and (3) to report the...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Laetitia Teixeira, Pedro Machado Dos Santos, Sara Alves, Maria João Azevedo, Mafalda Gomes Duarte, António Leuschner, Constança Paúl
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Medicine
Subjects:
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmed.2017.00197/full