'Sustaining Place' - a grounded theory of how informal carers of people with dementia manage alterations to relationships within their social worlds

Journal of Clinical Nursing

Volumn 22, Issue 3-4, 2013, Pages 501-512

  Daly, Louise ^a   Mccarron, Mary ^b   Higgins, Agnes ^a   Mccallion, Philip ^c  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b The University of Dublin   (Ireland)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Citizenship; Dementia; Grounded theory; Informal carers; Stigma

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; DEMENTIA; HUMAN; NURSING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; THEORETICAL MODEL; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAREGIVERS; DEMENTIA; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 84872281288     PISSN: 09621067     EISSN: 13652702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jocn.12003     Document Type: Article

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