Dementia and Residential Placement: A View from the Carers’ Perspective

Qualitative Social Work

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 187-215

  Chene, Bruno ^a  

^a Bundoora Extended Care Centre   (Australia)

Author keywords

aged care units aged psychiatric care units; caregivers; dementia; depression; family; residential placement

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248601596     PISSN: 14733250     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1473325006064257     Document Type: Article

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