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Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Alzheimer's disease in India : Bibliography. (1)

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- Lamb, Sarah. Aging and the Indian Diaspora: Cosmopolitan Families in India and Abroad. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2009.
- Lamb, Sarah. "Elder Residences and Outsourced Sons: The Remaking of Aging in Cosmopolitan India." The Cultural Context of Aging: World-Wide Perspectives. 3rd ed. Ed. Jay Sokolovsky. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2008. 418-440.
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- Cohen Lawrence : "No Aging in India : Alzheimer's, the Bad Family and Others modern things" ; The regents of the university of california, 1998.
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AGEING IN INDIA, 1999 report prepared for WHO by Dr Indira Jai Prakash, Professor of Psychology. Bangalore University, Bangalore, India.  PDF available on request or at : http://www.popbook.com/en/in/pdf/ageinginindia.pdf

- "Closing the treatment gap for dementia in India", Amit Dias and 
Vikram Patel1 ndian J Psychiatry. 2009 January; 51(Suppl1): S93–S97.

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‎"COMMUNITY BASED GERIATRIC IN INDIA", by Asharaf Salam, in BOLD, 2010.


- ‎"Conceptualizing a Geriatric Care Facility" by Asharaf Salam, in the Turkish Journal of Geriatrics, 2009, pdf available at: http://geriatri.dergisi.org/pdf/pdf_TJG_416.pdf    


- Dr O.P. Sharma : " Geriatric care 2008", a text book on geriatric and gerontology, edited by Dr O.P. Sharma.
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Geriatric Health in India: Concerns and Solutions. Gopal K Ingle and Anita Nath. 

Indian J Community Med. 2008 October; 33(4): 214–218.

The Opportunity in Geriatric Care in India. Anas Weblog. February 14, 2010. 
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- "Psychological Health of Primary Caregivers of Home-Based Older Adults with Dementia in India, Taiwan, and the United States".topics in Geriatric Rehabilitation, 2010, 26 : 1, pp.17-31. 
By Machiko R. Tomita, PhD; Asmita Sarang, OTR/L, MS; Kuo-Feng Lee, OT, MS; Kristen Schultz Lee, PhD; Linda S.Russ, PhD, OTR/L; Michael Noe, MD, MPH. 


- Perceived Caregiver Burden in India:Implications for Social ServicesBy Rashmi GuptaNancy Rowe and Vijayan K. PillaiAffilia February 2009 24: 69-79http://aff.sagepub.com/content/24/1/69.abstract
- Assessment of burden in caregivers of Alzheimer's disease from India


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Volume 3, Issue 3, Pages 112-116 (September 2010), Asian Journal of Psychiatry. 
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By Wee Shiong Lim, MRCP, MMedMei Sian Chong, MRCP and Suresh Sahadevan, FRCP.
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- Dementia mortality: Estimates of survival after the onset of dementia range from 4 to 12 yearsYear : 2011, Volume : 53,  Issue : 2, Page : 178-179. The Indian Journal of Psychiatry. 

The Psychotherapy Clinic, Hariharan Flats, 26/1, Arcot Street, T. Nagar, Chennai - 600 017, Tamil Nadu, India

- Blood Pressure and Cognitive Impairment in India and the United States: A Cross-National Epidemiological StudyArch Neurol August 1, 2003 60:1123-1128
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