Archives of Psychiatric Nursing
Volume 22, Issue 2 , Pages 87-94 , April 2008

Comparing the Efficiency of Eight-Session Versus Four-Session Memory Intervention for Older Adults

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 Support for this research was provided by National Institute of Aging (NIA) grant R01 AG15384.

PII: S0883-9417(07)00116-1

doi: 10.1016/j.apnu.2007.05.003

Archives of Psychiatric Nursing
Volume 22, Issue 2 , Pages 87-94 , April 2008