Perceptions of change over time in early-stage Alzheimer's disease:Implications for understanding awareness and coping style

Dementia

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 487-520

  Clare, Linda ^a   Roth, Ilona ^b   Pratt, Rebekah ^c  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

coping; follow up; memory; phenomenological; self adjusting coping style; self maintaining coping style

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993767890     PISSN: 14713012     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1471301205058304     Document Type: Article

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