Effectiveness of the dog therapy for patients with dementia - a systematic review

Blanka Klimova1, Josef Toman1, Kamil Kuca2,3

  • 1Department of Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Informatics and Management, University of Hradec Kralove, Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic.

BMC Psychiatry
|September 8, 2019
PubMed
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