Depression among caregivers of the frail elderly in urban Japan

Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 553-557

  Matsuu, Katsue ^a   Washio, Masakazu ^b,c   Arai, Yumiko ^c   Ide, Saburo ^a,b  

^a ST MARY S COLLEGE   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR GERIATRICS AND GERONTOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Attending; Caregiver; Caregiving depression; Elderly

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; DEPRESSION; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAREGIVERS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 0033779149     PISSN: 13231316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1819.2000.00752.x     Document Type: Article

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