Take up the caregiver's burden: Stories of care for Urban African American elders with dementia

Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 501-529

  Fox, Kenneth ^a   Hinton, W Ladson ^b   Levkoff, Sue ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; CASE REPORT; COST OF ILLNESS; DEMENTIA; ETHNOLOGY; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; CAREGIVERS; COST OF ILLNESS; DEMENTIA; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 0033254801     PISSN: 0165005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005520105518     Document Type: Article

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