Who cares? - Caring for the carers of stroke patients

Disability and Rehabilitation

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 425-427

  Rodgers, H ^a,b   Francis, J J ^b   Brittain, K ^b   Robinson, A L ^b  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; CAREGIVER BURDEN; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DEPRESSION; DISABILITY; HUMAN; INDEPENDENCE; IRRITABILITY; NOTE; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RESPONSIBILITY; SOCIAL ISOLATION; STRESS; STROKE; SURVIVOR; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; MENTAL STRESS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; CAREGIVERS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; HUMANS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 34247846430     PISSN: 09638288     EISSN: 14645165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09638280600834369     Document Type: Note

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