Dementia in low-income and middle-income countries: Different realities mandate tailored solutions

Cleusa Pinheiro Ferri; K. S. Jacob

doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1002271

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Dementia in low-income and middle-income countries: Different realities mandate tailored solutions

Cleusa Pinheiro Ferri ,

* E-mail: ferricleusa@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Psychobiology, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1815-7685

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K. S. Jacob

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India
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Dementia in low-income and middle-income countries: Different realities mandate tailored solutions

Cleusa Pinheiro Ferri,
K. S. Jacob

Published: March 28, 2017
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002271

About the Authors

Cleusa Pinheiro Ferri

* E-mail: ferricleusa@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Psychobiology, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1815-7685

K. S. Jacob

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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