Coping with challenges to memory in people with mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease: Observation of behaviour in response to analogues of everyday situations

Aging and Mental Health

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 46-53

  Oyebode, Jan Rachel ^a   Motala, Jamilah R ^a   Hardy, Rachel M ^a   Oliver, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Coping; Observation

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS; OBSERVATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

EID: 60549112576     PISSN: 13607863     EISSN: 13646915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13607860802154465     Document Type: Article

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