Testing the stress-buffering hypothesis of social support in couples coping with early-stage dementia

• Paul Gellert ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: paul.gellert@charite.de

  Affiliation Institute of Medical Sociology, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7492-7210

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• Andreas Häusler,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany

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• Ralf Suhr,

  Roles Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Quality in Care, Berlin, Germany

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• Maryam Gholami,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Family Medicine and Public Health, University of California San Diego, San Diego, United States of America

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• Michael Rapp,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany

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• Adelheid Kuhlmey,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Medical Sociology, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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• Johanna Nordheim

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Medical Sociology, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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