Voices of Spouses Living with Partners with Neuropsychiatric Symptoms Related to Dementia

Dementia

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2019, Pages 903-919

  Tyrrell, Marie ^a   Hillerås, Pernilla ^b   Skovdahl, Kirsti ^c   Fossum, Bjöörn ^b   Religa, Dorota ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b SOPHIAHEMMET UNIVERSITY COLLEGE   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH EASTERN NORWAY   (Norway)

Author keywords

community; dementia; neuropsychiatric symptoms; spouses partners experiences

Indexed keywords

AGED; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HOME CARE; HUMAN; INDEPENDENT LIVING; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROBLEM BEHAVIOR; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITY OF LIFE; SPOUSE; VERY ELDERLY; VOICE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HOME CARE SERVICES; HUMANS; INDEPENDENT LIVING; LONG-TERM CARE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROBLEM BEHAVIOR; QUALITY OF LIFE; SPOUSES; VOICE;

EID: 85064342515     PISSN: 14713012     EISSN: 17412684     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1471301217693867     Document Type: Article

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