Health care professionals' support for older carers

Ageing and Society

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 725-744

  Pickard, Susan ^a,b   Shaw, Sandra ^a   Glendinning, Caroline ^a  

^a Oral Health Unit   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Care; Choice; Lifetime; Nurses; Older carers; Reciprocity; Support

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE;

EID: 0034462485     PISSN: 0144686X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0144686X01007991     Document Type: Article

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