Managing hope, denial or temporal anomie? Informal cancer carers' accounts of spouses' cancer diagnoses

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 73, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 904-911

  Olson, Rebecca Eileen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Cancer caregiving; Coping strategies; Diagnosis; Emotions; Time

Indexed keywords

CANCER; COPING STRATEGY; DISEASE TREATMENT; HEALTH CARE; PSYCHOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PATIENT; CAREGIVER BURDEN; CAREGIVER SUPPORT; COPING BEHAVIOR; DENIAL; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; HOPE; HUMAN; MALE; PROGNOSIS; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SPOUSE; TIME PERCEPTION;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAREGIVERS; DENIAL (PSYCHOLOGY); EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; SOCIOLOGY, MEDICAL; SPOUSES;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 79955782800     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2010.12.026     Document Type: Article

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