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Editorial
. 2017 Apr 24;189(16):E581-E582.
doi: 10.1503/cmaj.170370.

Dementia-friendly communities: where home care and mental health intersect

Erica Weir  1 , Dallas Seitz  1
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Editorial

Dementia-friendly communities: where home care and mental health intersect

Erica Weir et al. CMAJ. .
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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: Dallas Seitz received grant support from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research – Canadian Consortium on Neurodegeneration in Aging, and financial compensation from Cancer Care Ontario for his role as the Provincial Medical Lead for Dementia Capacity Planning in Ontario. No other competing interests were declared.

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