Expanding the discourse of care: Family constructed biographies of nursing home residents

Families, Systems and Health

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 323-335

  Caron, Wayne ^a   Hepburn, Ken ^c   Luptak, Marilyn ^c   Grant, Leslie ^c   Ostwald, Sharon ^b   Keenan, Joseph ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; ELDERLY CARE; FAMILY COUNSELING; GROUP DYNAMICS; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALIZATION; INTIMACY; LONG TERM CARE; NURSING HOME;

EID: 0032877671     PISSN: 10917527     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/h0089873     Document Type: Article

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