'I don't have any other choice': Spouses' experiences of placing a partner in a care home for older people in Sweden

Journal of Advanced Nursing

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1178-1186

  Lundh, Ulla ^a,b   Sandberg, Jonas ^b   Nolan, Mike ^c  

^a Division of Nursing Science   (United Kingdom)

^b LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Care homes; Community medicine; Family carers; Nursing; Placement; Planning; Role development; Sweden

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CONFLICT; COST OF ILLNESS; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; INSTITUTIONALIZATION; MALE; NURSING HOME; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SPOUSE; SWEDEN;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); COST OF ILLNESS; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; INSTITUTIONALIZATION; MALE; NURSING HOMES; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRES; SPOUSES; SWEDEN;

EID: 0034324207     PISSN: 03092402     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2648.2000.01588.x     Document Type: Article

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