"My Mind's Made Up": Assumptions and Decision-Making in Accounts of Caregiving Women

Journal of Women and Aging

Volumn 14, Issue 3-4, 2002, Pages 77-97

  Browder, Sally ^a  

^a LYON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Caregiving; Decision making; Mindset; Stress

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; CAUCASIAN; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HOME CARE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RURAL POPULATION; SELF CONCEPT; UNITED STATES; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

ADULT; AGED; ARKANSAS; CAREGIVERS; DECISION MAKING; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HOME NURSING; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; MIDDLE AGED; NARRATION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RURAL POPULATION; SELF CONCEPT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; WOMEN;

EID: 0036981840     PISSN: 08952841     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J074v14n03_06     Document Type: Article

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