Psychosocial Effects on Carers of Living with Persons with Dementia

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 1990, Pages 351-361

  Brodaty, Henry ^a   Hadzi Pavlovic, Dusan ^b  

^a PRINCE HENRY HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b Prince Henry and Prince of Wales Hospitals   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADJUSTMENT DISORDER; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HOME CARE; HUMAN; MALE; MARRIAGE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOSOMATIC DISORDER; SELF HELP; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; ADULT; CAREGIVER; FAMILY; FITNESS; NORMAL HUMAN; SOCIAL ISOLATION;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADJUSTMENT DISORDERS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AUSTRALIA; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HOME NURSING; HUMAN; MALE; MARRIAGE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC DISORDERS; SELF-HELP GROUPS; SICK ROLE; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0025571827     PISSN: 00048674     EISSN: 14401614     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/00048679009077702     Document Type: Article

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