When it is more than a job: Close relationships between home health aides and older clients

Journal of Aging and Health

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 362-387

  Piercy, Kathleen W ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; EMOTIONALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; WORK;

EID: 0033930174     PISSN: 08982643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/089826430001200305     Document Type: Article

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