The psychological impact of a diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease

Dementia

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 289-305

  Lee, Suzanne M ^a   Roen, Katrina ^b   Thornton, Amanda ^c  

^a 5 Boroughs Partnership NHS Trust   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c BURNLEY GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; dementia; diagnosis; disclosure; interpretative phenomenological analysis

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VERY ELDERLY;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84899631131     PISSN: 14713012     EISSN: 17412684     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1471301213497080     Document Type: Article

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