Coming to terms: African-Americans' complex ways of coping with life in a nursing home

International Journal of Aging and Human Development

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 183-205

  Groger, Lisa ^a  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COPING BEHAVIOR; EMOTION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE NEED; HUMAN; INSTITUTIONAL CARE; INTERVIEW; MALE; MODEL; NURSING HOME; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RACE; SATISFACTION;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAREGIVERS; CHRONIC DISEASE; COST OF ILLNESS; DEFENSE MECHANISMS; FEMALE; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; MALE; NURSING HOMES; PATIENT SATISFACTION; SICK ROLE;

EID: 0037003712     PISSN: 00914150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2190/MDLP-UDE7-P376-QXE3     Document Type: Article

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