Quality of life for persons living with Alzheimer's disease: The human becoming perspective

Nursing Science Quarterly

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 126-133

  Parse, Rosemarie Rizzo ^a  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's Disease; Becoming; Human; Parse's Theory; Quality of Life; Theory

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT; MALE; NURSING; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; NURSING THEORY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS; MALE; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; NURSING THEORY; QUALITY OF LIFE;

EID: 0030237971     PISSN: 08943184     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/089431849600900312     Document Type: Article

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