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Scaling up innovative interventions for family caregivers: Evaluation of the Reitman Centre CARERS program for supporting dementia family caregivers: a pre–post intervention study

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2022

David K. Conn
David K. Conn*
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Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada Department of Psychiatry, Baycrest Health Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada
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Email: dconn@baycrest.org
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International Psychogeriatrics , Volume 34 , Special Issue 9: Issue Theme: Non-Medical Social Determinants of Health , September 2022 , pp. 771 - 773
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