A Family's Coming to Terms with Alzheimer's Disease

Western Journal of Nursing Research

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 12-28

  Perry, JoAnn ^a,b   Olshansky, Ellen F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONFLICT; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; IDENTITY; MALE; MARRIAGE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IDENTIFICATION (PSYCHOLOGY); INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MARRIAGE;

EID: 0030078750     PISSN: 01939459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/019394599601800102     Document Type: Article

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