Transition in care: Family carers' experience of nursing home placement

Journal of Advanced Nursing

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1474-1481

  Kellett, Ursula M ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Family caregiving; Family nursing; Hermeneutic phenomenology; Long term care for the aged; Nurse family relations; Nursing home; Partnership; Placement; Transition

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CAREGIVER; CLINICAL TRIAL; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HOME FOR THE AGED; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; LIFE EVENT; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NURSING HOME; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

AGED; AUSTRALIA; CAREGIVERS; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; NURSING HOMES;

EID: 0033141771     PISSN: 03092402     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2648.1999.01035.x     Document Type: Article

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