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Am doing a qcf course an need to know what is meant by medical model of dementia?
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Dementia as disease: At some point, dementia was considered a consequence of normal aging. Now we know that there are several diseases responsible for it and that not everybody who is old will necessarily develop dementia.
Answered 10/8/2018
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