Paradise regained: How elderly people who are chronically mentally ill reinvent a social self

Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 383-409

  Van Dongen, Els ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Chronic illness; Chronic mental illness; Elderly; Social self

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HOME FOR THE AGED; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL PATIENT; NURSING HOME; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL ADAPTATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTALLY ILL PERSONS; NURSING HOMES; SELF CONCEPT; SELF EFFICACY; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT;

EID: 0035747651     PISSN: 01459740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2001.9966183     Document Type: Article

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