Exploring caregiving experiences: caregiver coping and making sense of illnessFootnote

¹Portions of this article were presented at the 2009 British Psychological Society, Health Psychology Conference, Aston University. This article presents findings from qualitative research and we present other findings from this research elsewhere.

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