The lived experience of aloneness for older women currently being treated for depression

Issues in Mental Health Nursing

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 99-111

  Wilkinson, Laura ^a,c   Pierce, Linda ^b  

^a General Psychiatry Private Practice   (United States)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF OHIO   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LONELINESS; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PSYCHIATRIC NURSING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; SELF CARE;

AGED; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONELINESS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PSYCHIATRIC NURSING; SELF CARE; WOMEN;

EID: 0031087124     PISSN: 01612840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/01612849709010327     Document Type: Article

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