Older couples' management of multiple-chronic illnesses: Individual and shared perceptions and coping in type 2 diabetes and osteoarthritis

Families, Systems and Health

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 30-47

  Yorgason, Jeremy B ^a   Roper, Susanne Olsen ^a   Wheeler, Brandan ^a   Crane, Kristen ^b   Byron, Rebekah ^c   Carpenter, Leslie ^a   Sandberg, Jonathan G ^a   Sheffield, Rachel ^d   Higley, Dawn ^e  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ST MARY'S UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Heritage Foundation   (United States)

^e INTERMOUNTAIN HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Arthritis; Chronic illness; Coping and adaptation; Diabetes; Marital issues

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CAREGIVER; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTERVIEW; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SPOUSE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CAREGIVERS; CHRONIC DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOARTHRITIS; SPOUSES;

EID: 77953248256     PISSN: 10917527     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0019396     Document Type: Article

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