Deciding to institutionalize: Why do family members cease caregiving at home?

Journal of Neuroscience Nursing

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 95-103

  McLennon, Susan M ^a   Habermann, Barbara ^b   Davis, Linda Lindsey ^c  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NURSING   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CAREGIVER; COST OF ILLNESS; DECISION MAKING; FAMILY; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH STATUS; HOME CARE; HUMAN; INSTITUTIONALIZATION; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; NURSING; NURSING HOME; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PARKINSON DISEASE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICS; TIME; UNITED STATES;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALABAMA; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CAREGIVERS; COST OF ILLNESS; DECISION MAKING; FAMILY; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HEALTH STATUS; HOME NURSING; HUMANS; INSTITUTIONALIZATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; NORTH CAROLINA; NURSING HOMES; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PARKINSON DISEASE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77950932503     PISSN: 08880395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JNN.0b013e3181ce5c45     Document Type: Article

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