The hope experience of older bereaved women who cared for a spouse with terminal cancer

Qualitative Health Research

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 388-400

  Holtslander, Lorraine F ^a   Duggleby, Wendy Diane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bereavement; Cancer; Caregiving; Constant comparison; Constructivism; Grounded theory; Informal; Interviews; journals (diaries); Midlife; Palliative care; Psychosocial aspects; Women's health

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BEREAVEMENT; CANADA; CANCER PATIENT; CAREGIVER; COURAGE; FEMALE; GRIEF; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HOPE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; NEOPLASM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SELF ESTEEM; SPOUSE; STRENGTH; TERMINAL DISEASE; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT;

AGED; BEREAVEMENT; CANADA; CAREGIVERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEOPLASMS; PALLIATIVE CARE; PSYCHOLOGY; SPOUSES; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 61349178941     PISSN: 10497323     EISSN: 15527557     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1049732308329682     Document Type: Article

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