Capturing the Huntington's disease spousal carer experience:A preliminary investigation using the ‘Photovoice’ method

Dementia

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 95-116

  Aubeeluck, Aimee ^a   Buchanan, Heather ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DERBY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

implications for health care professionals; Photovoice; quality of life

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993740449     PISSN: 14713012     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1471301206059757     Document Type: Article

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