Caring as worrying: The experience of spousal carers

Journal of Advanced Nursing

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 475-482

  Cheung, Jenny ^a   Hocking, Peta ^b  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b BARWON HEALTH   (Australia)

Author keywords

Caring; Community nursing; Interpretive phenomenology; Multiple sclerosis; Spousal carer; Worrying

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; EMOTION; FEMALE; HEALTH; HOME CARE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INSTITUTIONAL CARE; INTERVIEW; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; PATIENT CARE; RESPONSIBILITY; SPOUSE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CAREGIVERS; FEMALE; HOME NURSING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; RESPITE CARE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SPOUSES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 4444382172     PISSN: 03092402     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2648.2004.03126.x     Document Type: Article

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