The experience of high levels of grief in caregivers of persons with Alzheimer's disease and related dementia

Death Studies

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 495-523

  Sanders, Sara ^a   Ott, Carol H ^b   Kelber, Sheryl T ^b   Noonan, Patricia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ADULT CHILD; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; COST OF ILLNESS; DEMENTIA; EMOTION; FEMALE; GRIEF; GUILT; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RELIGION; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SPOUSE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ADULT CHILDREN; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; CAREGIVERS; COST OF ILLNESS; DEMENTIA; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; GRIEF; GUILT; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SPIRITUALITY; SPOUSES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 46349100617     PISSN: 07481187     EISSN: 10917683     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07481180802138845     Document Type: Article

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