Older women caring for spouses with alzheimer’s disease at home: Making sense of the situation

Health Care for Women International

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 292-312

  Paun, Olimpia ^a  

^a RUSH UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF NURSING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HOME CARE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERVIEW; SENESCENCE; SPOUSE; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CAREGIVER; DECISION MAKING; EMPATHY; MALE; MARRIAGE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PHILOSOPHY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CAREGIVERS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HOME NURSING; HUMANS; MALE; MARRIAGE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PHILOSOPHY; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL VALUES; SPOUSES; WOMEN;

EID: 0038687436     PISSN: 07399332     EISSN: 10964665     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07399330390183615     Document Type: Article

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