Into the abyss of someone else's dying: The voice of the end-of-life caregiver

Clinical Nursing Research

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 80-97

  Phillips, Linda R ^a   Reed, Pamela G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

End of life family caregiving; Family care of aging adults

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CAREGIVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MANPOWER; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; TERMINAL CARE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CAREGIVERS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 59949087165     PISSN: 10547738     EISSN: 15523799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1054773808330538     Document Type: Article

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