Article info
PDFClinical ethics
How do elderly spouse care givers of people with Alzheimer disease experience the disclosure of dementia diagnosis and subsequent care?
- Marja-Liisa Laakkonen, Helsinki Health Centre, Laakso Hospital, PO Box 6600, FIN-00099 The City of Helsinki, Finland; marja-liisa.laakkonen{at}hel.fi
Citation
How do elderly spouse care givers of people with Alzheimer disease experience the disclosure of dementia diagnosis and subsequent care?
Publication history
- Received June 20, 2007
- Revised September 1, 2007
- Accepted September 4, 2007
- First published May 29, 2008.
Online issue publication
April 27, 2016
Request permissions
If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which will take you to the Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink service. You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways.
Copyright information
2008 BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and the Institute of Medical Ethics
Other content recommended for you
- The Northern Manhattan Caregiver Intervention Project: a randomised trial testing the effectiveness of a dementia caregiver intervention in Hispanics in New York City
- Qualitative exploration of emotional and social changes from diagnosis to bereavement for spousal caregivers of persons with dementia
- Qualitative study exploring heterogeneity in caregiving experiences post-stroke in Singapore
- Health and long-term care of the elderly with dementia in rural Thailand: a cross-sectional survey through their caregivers
- The use of legal guardians and financial powers of attorney among home-dwellers with Alzheimer’s disease living with their spousal caregivers
- Barriers to dementia diagnosis and care in China
- Northern Manhattan Hispanic Caregiver Intervention Effectiveness Study: protocol of a pragmatic randomised trial comparing the effectiveness of two established interventions for informal caregivers of persons with dementia
- Effectiveness of dementia follow-up care by memory clinics or general practitioners: randomised controlled trial
- How people with dementia and carers understand and react to social functioning changes in mild dementia: a UK-based qualitative study
- Development of a home-visit nursing scale for helping spousal caregivers of terminal cancer patients develop positive perspectives of their caregiving experiences: a cross-sectional study