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Editorial
. 2010 Jun 3:340:c2626.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.c2626.

Care plans for people with Alzheimer's disease

Lon S Schneider
Editorial

Care plans for people with Alzheimer's disease

Lon S Schneider. BMJ. .

Abstract

Intuitively a good idea, but hard to prove they are effective in practice

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: The author has completed the Unified Competing Interest form at www.icmje.org/coi_disclosure.pdf (available on request from the corresponding author) and declares: (1) No support from companies for the submitted work; (2) He has received research support from Johnson and Johnson, Novartis, and Pfizer and has consulted with these companies plus Forest Laboratories and Lundbeck, all of whom are marketers of drugs for Alzheimer’s disease; (3) No family financial relationships that are relevant to the submitted work; and (4) No non-financial interests that may be relevant to the submitted work.

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