Midlife and aging parents of adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities: Impacts of lifelong parenting

American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

Volumn 116, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 479-499

  Seltzer, Marsha Mailick ^a   Floyd, Frank ^b   Song, Jieun ^a   Greenberg, Jan ^a   Hong, Jinkuk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DIVORCE; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADULT; AGED; CAREGIVERS; DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES; DIVORCE; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARENTS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 82455220366     PISSN: 19447515     EISSN: 19447558     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1352/1944-7558-116.6.479     Document Type: Article

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