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Screening for dementia: diagnosis… and then what?
Author(s) -
Hill Lisa,
Walton Ian
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
progress in neurology and psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.19
H-Index - 12
eISSN - 1931-227X
pISSN - 1367-7543
DOI - 10.1002/pnp.270
Subject(s) - dementia , primary care , medicine , focus (optics) , psychology , psychiatry , gerontology , intensive care medicine , family medicine , pathology , disease , physics , optics
Rather than promoting more screening to increase early diagnosis of dementia in primary care, the initial focus should be on providing adequate resources to support patients and carers in the community once a diagnosis has been made, argue Lisa Hill and Ian Walton.