Sustaining 'couplehood': Spouses' strategies for living positively with dementia

Dementia

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 383-409

  Hellström, Ingrid ^a   Nolan, Mike ^b   Lundh, Ulla ^c  

^a Ersta Skondal University College   (Sweden)

^b NORTHERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Couplehood; Dementia; Grounded theory; Spousal relationships

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548437189     PISSN: 14713012     EISSN: 17412684     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1471301207081571     Document Type: Article

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