‘I Cannot See Flowers but I Can Smell Them’: The Relation of Age and Gender to Self-Reported Coping Strategies Among Older Adults with Visual Impairment

Qualitative Social Work

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 389-411

  Lee ‘othelia’, Eun Kyyoung ^a   Brennan, Mark ^b  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Lighthouse International   (United States)

Author keywords

adaptation; chronic illness; coping; older adults; vision loss

Indexed keywords

EID: 85032070140     PISSN: 14733250     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/14733250260620838     Document Type: Article

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