Depression and other psychiatric morbidity in carers of elderly people living at home

British Medical Journal

Volumn 312, Issue 7024, 1996, Pages 153-156

  Livingston, Gill ^a   Manela, Monica ^a   Katona, Cornelius ^a,b  

^a ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b Dept of Psychiatry of the Elderly ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; COMMUNITY; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; MORBIDITY; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEX DIFFERENCE; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0030028029     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.312.7024.153     Document Type: Article

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