Journeys into care giving: lessons from Sarah Leavitt's 'Tangles: A Story About Alzheimer's, My Mother, and Me'

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  • Sathyaraj Venkatesan National Institute of Technology, Trichy
  • Anu Mary Peter

Keywords:

Alzheimers disease, Book reviews, Caregivers, Graphic Medicine, Tangles

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Published

2015-10-06

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Venkatesan, S., & Peter, A. M. (2015). Journeys into care giving: lessons from Sarah Leavitt’s ’Tangles: A Story About Alzheimer’s, My Mother, and Me’. Research and Humanities in Medical Education, 2, 52–56. Retrieved from https://rhime.in/ojs/index.php/rhime/article/view/18

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