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A Test for Residual Mental Ability in Senile Dementia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

Moyra Williams*
Affiliation:
United Oxford Hospitals' Geriatric Unit, Cowley Road Hospital, Oxford

Extract

Measurement of the residual abilities in patients suffering from senile dementia is difficult to carry out with the present techniques which, having been standardized on younger people, tend to miss many of the characteristics of mental decline through ageing.

Type
Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1958 

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