Mild cognitive impairment: Coping with an uncertain label

International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 148-154

  Banningh, Liesbeth Joosten Weyn ^a   Vernooij Dassen, Myrra ^a   Rikkert, Marcel Olde ^a   Teunisse, Jan Pieter ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Coping; Experience; Mild cognitive impairment; Psychosocial consequences; Qualitative

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; AGED; ANGER; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE COURSE; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; GROUNDED THEORY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; IRRITABILITY; MALE; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; MOBILIZATION; PERSONALITY; PHYSICAL DISEASE; PROBLEM SOLVING; SELF ESTEEM; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SUPPORT GROUP; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANXIETY; COGNITION DISORDERS; DEPRESSION; DISEASE PROGRESSION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 39749141641     PISSN: 08856230     EISSN: 10991166     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gps.1855     Document Type: Article

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