Living vigilant lives with chronic illness: Stories from older low-income minority women

Health Care for Women International

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 76-84

  Shawler, Celeste ^a   Logsdon, Dana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; ETHNOLOGY; HIP FRACTURE; HUMAN; MALE; MINORITY GROUP; PILOT STUDY; POVERTY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIGION; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHRONIC DISEASE; HIP FRACTURES; HUMANS; MALE; MINORITY GROUPS; PILOT PROJECTS; POVERTY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SPIRITUALITY; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 37849047228     PISSN: 07399332     EISSN: 10964665     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07399330701723863     Document Type: Article

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