Living on the threshold: The spatial experience of living alone with dementia

Dementia

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 263-291

  De Witt, Lorna ^a   Ploeg, Jenny ^b   Black, Margaret ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dementia; Heidegger; Interpretive phenomenology; Living alone; Spatial experience

Indexed keywords

EID: 65449147401     PISSN: 14713012     EISSN: 17412684     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1471301209103273     Document Type: Article

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