Decision-Making process of nursing home placement among Chinese family caregivers

Perspectives in Psychiatric Care

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 108-118

  Chang, Yu Ping ^a   Schneider, Joanne Kraenzle ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision making process; Dementia; Nursing home placement; Traditional Chinese filial piety

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CAREGIVER; COST OF ILLNESS; DECISION MAKING; DEMENTIA; ETHNOLOGY; FAMILY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING; NURSING HOME; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; QUESTIONNAIRE; TAIWAN;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CAREGIVERS; COST OF ILLNESS; DECISION MAKING; DEMENTIA; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERGENERATIONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING HOMES; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PATIENT ADMISSION; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; QUESTIONNAIRES; TAIWAN;

EID: 77954359836     PISSN: 00315990     EISSN: 17446163     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-6163.2010.00246.x     Document Type: Article

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