Perceptions of death among adults with intellectual disability and awareness of their own mortality

International Journal on Disability and Human Development

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 433-440

  Dusart, Anne ^a  

^a CREAI Bourgogne (Centre d'Etudes et d'Action sur les Handicaps et les Inadaptations)   (France)

Author keywords

awareness of dying; Experience of death; intellectual disability; perceptions of death

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BEREAVEMENT; DEATH; EMOTION; FAMILY; HUMAN; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; INTELLIGENCE; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; PERCEPTION; QUESTIONNAIRE;

EID: 59049085585     PISSN: 21911231     EISSN: 21910367     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/IJDHD.2008.7.4.433     Document Type: Article

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