The experience of caring for a partner with young onset dementia: How younger carers cope

Dementia

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 635-651

  Lockeridge, Shirley ^a   Simpson, Jane ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

carers; coping; interpretative phenomenological analysis; qualitative research and young onset dementia

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; CASE REPORT; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERPRETATIVE PHENOMENOLOGICAL ANALYSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING; ONSET AGE; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH AND YOUNG ONSET DEMENTIA; SEXUALITY; UNITED KINGDOM;

CARERS; COPING; INTERPRETATIVE PHENOMENOLOGICAL ANALYSIS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH AND YOUNG ONSET DEMENTIA;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGE OF ONSET; CAREGIVERS; DEMENTIA; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SEXUAL PARTNERS;

EID: 84883153411     PISSN: 14713012     EISSN: 17412684     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1471301212440873     Document Type: Article

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