The Experience of Being a Grandmother Who is the Primary Caregiver for Her HIV-Positive Grandchild

Nursing Research

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 107-113

  Caliandro, Gloria ^a   Hughes, Cynthia ^a  

^a Seton Hall University College of Nursing   (United States)

Author keywords

Caregivers; Grandmothers; HIV AIDS

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; FAMILY; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HOME CARE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN RELATION; INFANT; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; NURSING; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SELF CONCEPT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; CAREGIVERS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FAMILY; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HIV INFECTIONS; HOME NURSING; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTERGENERATIONAL RELATIONS; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; SELF CONCEPT;

EID: 0032015338     PISSN: 00296562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006199-199803000-00009     Document Type: Article

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