Personhood-Based Dementia Care: Using the Familial Caregiver as a Bridging Model for Professional Caregivers
With biomedicine at the forefront of our culture's understanding of illness, true healing is often neglected. It has become common practice to place elderly persons with Alzheimer's disease in nursing homes or long-term care facilities that do not always regard the sufferers' well-bei...
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| Language: | English |
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University Library System, University of Pittsburgh
2015-05-01
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| Series: | Anthropology & Aging |
| Online Access: | http://anthro-age.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/anthro-age/article/view/84 |