Relatives' experiences of frontal-variant frontotemporal dementia

Qualitative Health Research

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 156-166

  Oyebode, Jan R ^a   Bradley, Paul ^b   Allen, Joanne L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b Dorothy Pattison Hospital   (United Kingdom)

^c BIRMINGHAM AND SOLIHULL MENTAL HEALTH NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

dementia; families, caregiving; interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA); qualitative analysis; relationships, primary partner

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AGED; ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; EMOTION; FAMILY; FEMALE; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIAL STIGMA; UNITED KINGDOM; VERY ELDERLY;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAREGIVERS; EMOTIONS; FAMILY; FEMALE; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIAL STIGMA; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84871645143     PISSN: 10497323     EISSN: 15527557     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1049732312466294     Document Type: Article

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