Meaningful lives: Elders in treatment for depression

Archives of Psychiatric Nursing

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 408-417

  Ragan, Meredith ^a   Kane, Catherine F ^b  

^a Tucker Psychiatric Clinic   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

AGED; ARTICLE; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; FAMILY RELATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LONELINESS; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NURSING; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOTHERAPY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RELIGION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; FAMILY RELATIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; LONELINESS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PSYCHOTHERAPY; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SPIRITUALITY;

EID: 78649459430     PISSN: 08839417     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apnu.2010.04.002     Document Type: Article

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