The parent they knew and the “New” Parent: Daughters’ perceptions of dementia of the Alzheimer’s type

Home Health Care Services Quarterly

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 21-38

  Furlini, Linda ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Caregiver support; Changed relationship; Chronic grief; Dementia; Dementia of the alzheimer s type; Informal caregiver education; Informal caregivers narratives; Loss; Psychosocial death

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CANADA; CAREGIVER; CASE REPORT; CHILD PARENT RELATION; COST OF ILLNESS; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; GRIEF; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; LITERATURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR FAMILY; NURSING; PATHOLOGY; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANECDOTES; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CANADA; CAREGIVERS; COST OF ILLNESS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; GRIEF; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR FAMILY; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0035749515     PISSN: 01621424     EISSN: 15450856     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J027v20n01_02     Document Type: Article

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