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GENTLECARE: the Prosthetic Life Care Approach to Providing Dementia Care at Home or in Institutions

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Mother Theresa has been quoted in the London Observer (1971) as saying: “The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted”[1]

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  1. London Observer Newspaper, London, 3 October 1971

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  2. Maslow AH (1954) Motivation and personality. Harper & Roe, New York, p 80

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  3. Reisberg B (ed) (1983) Alzhemer’s disease. The Free Press, New York, pp 174–175

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  1. M. J. D. Jones
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Institute of Pharmacology, University of Pavia, Viale Taramelli 14, 27100, Pavia, Italy

    Stefano Govoni

  2. IRCCS “S. Giovanni di Dio”, “S. Cuore-Fatebenefratelli” Institute, Via Pilastroni 4, 25125, Brescia, Italy

    Stefano Govoni

  3. Consultant Office of Research Policy and Strategy Coordination of WHO, University of Milan, Italy

    Carla Liana Bolis

  4. Geriatric Research Group, Via Romanino 1, 25122, Brescia, Italy

    Marco Trabucchi

  5. Department of Neurosciences, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Rome, Italy

    Marco Trabucchi

  6. Alzheimer’s Unit, IRCCS “S. Giovanni di Dio”, “S. Cuore-Fatebenefratelli” Institute, Via Pilastroni 4, 25125, Brescia, Italy

    Marco Trabucchi

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Jones, M.J.D. (1999). GENTLECARE: the Prosthetic Life Care Approach to Providing Dementia Care at Home or in Institutions. In: Govoni, S., Bolis, C.L., Trabucchi, M. (eds) Dementias. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-2149-5_13

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