Learning the Meaning of Care: A Case Study in a Geriatric Home in Upper Egypt

Journal of Transcultural Nursing

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 155-163

  Boggatz, Thomas ^a   Dassen, Theo ^b  

^a Salam Center   (Egypt)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

care; Egypt; geriatric nursing

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; EGYPT; FEAR; FEMALE; GERIATRIC NURSING; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HOME FOR THE AGED; HUMAN; MALE; RELIGION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; TABOO;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CHRISTIANITY; EGYPT; FEAR; FEMALE; GERIATRIC NURSING; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; MALE; SOCIAL VALUES; TABOO;

EID: 33646697365     PISSN: 10436596     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1043659605285409     Document Type: Article

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