Usability of Alzheimer's mHealth Applications.
Alzheimer's is a chronic, age-related disease reported to be the sixth leading cause of death in the United States. The staggering imbalance of its affect between ethnic groups prevails within the African American population, as opposed to non-Hispanic whites, in diagnosis and caregiving responsibil...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Best Practices in Health Professions Diversity: Education, Research & Policy Vol. 11; no. 1; pp. 31 - 43 |
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School of Health Sciences at Winston-Salem State University
Spring2018
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