Communication - The heart of caregiving

Alzheimer's Care Quarterly

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 77-83

  Haak, Nancy Jeanne ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Affective prosody; Alzheimer's disease; Caregivers; Communication; Dementia; Emotion

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745637974     PISSN: 15253279     EISSN: 15503240     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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