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Family Carers of People with Dementia

Antonovsky’s sense of coherence and resistance resources reduce perception of burden in family carers of people with Alzheimer’s disease

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Pages 1717-1725 | Received 28 Apr 2019, Accepted 03 Sep 2019, Published online: 27 Sep 2019

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