Long-term care restructuring in rural Ontario: Retrieving community service user and provider narratives

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 50, Issue 7-8, 2000, Pages 1037-1045

  Cloutier Fisher, Denise ^a   Joseph, Alun E ^b  

^a Ctrl W Hlth Plan Info Network   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aging in place; Community services; Long term care reform; Ontario; Rural

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; RURAL AREA; SERVICE PROVISION;

AGING; CANADA; COMMUNITY CARE; CONFERENCE PAPER; FAMILY COUNSELING; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; MANAGED CARE; RURAL AREA;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE REFORM; HUMANS; LONG-TERM CARE; MALE; ONTARIO; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES;

CANADA;

EID: 0033979691     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(99)00353-6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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