'Oh he was forgettable': Construction of self identity through use of communicative coping behaviors in the discourse of persons with cognitive impairment

Dementia

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 341-359

  Saunders, Pamela A ^a   de Medeiros, Kate ^b   Bartell, Ashley ^c  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; doctor patient communication; humor; power; self identity

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960583725     PISSN: 14713012     EISSN: 17412684     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1471301211407805     Document Type: Article

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