Caregiving to older adults: Determinants of informal caregivers' subjectivewell-being and formal and informal support as alleviating conditions

Journals of Gerontology - Series B Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences

Volumn 73, Issue 6, 2018, Pages 1099-1111

  Verbakel, Ellen ^b   Metzelthin, Silke F ^a   Kempen, Gertrudis I J M ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Caregiving; Health care policy; Long term care

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CAREGIVER; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DISABLED PERSON; FEMALE; HOME CARE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ADJUSTMENT; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TIME FACTOR; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAREGIVERS; COGNITIVE DYSFUNCTION; DISABLED PERSONS; EMOTIONAL ADJUSTMENT; FEMALE; HOME NURSING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85063104108     PISSN: 10795014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/geronb/gbw047     Document Type: Article

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