Dementia care as a moral enterprise: A call for a return to the sanctity of lived time

Alzheimer's Care Today

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 360-372

  Mclean, Athena ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Caregiving; Commoditization; Lived time; OBRA; Personhood

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649935378     PISSN: 19363001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ALCAT.0000297156.35645.d8     Document Type: Article

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