Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) patients living at home and their spousal caregivers compared with institutionalized FTD patients and their spousal caregivers: Which characteristics are associated with in-home care?

Dementia

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 61-77

  Riedijk, Samantha R ^a   Duivenvoorden, Hugo J ^a   Van Oostrom, Iris ^a,b   Rosso, Sonia M ^a   Van Swieten, John ^a   Niermeijer, Martinus F ^c,d   Tibben, Aad ^e  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^e LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Burden; Caregiver motivation; Frontotemporal dementia; In home care

Indexed keywords

EID: 59649129207     PISSN: 14713012     EISSN: 17412684     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1471301208099045     Document Type: Article

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