Activity and meaning making in the everyday lives of people with advanced cancer

Palliative and Supportive Care

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 469-479

  La Cour, Karen ^a,b   Johannessen, Helle ^a   Josephsson, Staffan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b University College Sjlland   (Denmark)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Activity in daily life; Advanced cancer; Meaning making; Narrative

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; TERMINALLY ILL;

EID: 74249110740     PISSN: 14789515     EISSN: 14789523     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1478951509990472     Document Type: Article

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