'Making the best you can of it': Living with early-stage Alzheimer's disease

Sociology of Health and Illness

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 396-412

  MacRae, Hazel ^a  

^a MOUNT SAINT VINCENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Culture and illness; Meaning

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CANADA; COST OF ILLNESS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; CANADA; COST OF ILLNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 42549124510     PISSN: 01419889     EISSN: 14679566     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9566.2007.01056.x     Document Type: Article

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