Understanding "good days" and "bad days": Emotional and physical reactivity among caregivers for elder relatives

Family Relations

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-11

  Koerner, Susan Silverberg ^a   Kenyon, DenYelle Baete ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Caregiving; Daily diary; Family; Gender; Multilevel analysis; Personality; Well being

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845647707     PISSN: 01976664     EISSN: 17413729     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-3729.2007.00435.x     Document Type: Article

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