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The main concern of all who work with the elderly at the beginning of the last quarter of the twentieth century must be the prevalence of dementia.
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Pitt, B. (1979). The Current State of Senile Dementia. In: Current Themes in Psychiatry 2. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-04494-8_22
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