The challenges of family member caregiving: How the home health and hospice clinician can help at the end of life

Home Healthcare Nurse

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 131-136

  Ruder, Shirley ^a  

^a FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; CASE REPORT; COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING; COST OF ILLNESS; EDUCATION; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; GRIEF; HEALTH SERVICE; HOME CARE; HOSPICE CARE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSING; NURSING ASSESSMENT; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROSTATE TUMOR; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RELIGION; REVIEW; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SPOUSE; WORKLOAD;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING; COST OF ILLNESS; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; GRIEF; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HOME CARE SERVICES; HOME NURSING; HOSPICE CARE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE'S ROLE; NURSING ASSESSMENT; PROFESSIONAL-FAMILY RELATIONS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SPIRITUALITY; SPOUSES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; WORKLOAD;

EID: 40049092330     PISSN: 0884741X     EISSN: 15390713     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.NHH.0000311034.00721.73     Document Type: Review

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