The costs and rewards of caregiving among aging spouses and adult children

Family Relations

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 317-325

  Raschick, Michael ^a   Ingersoll Dayton, Berit ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Family caregiving; Intergenerational exchanges; Social exchange theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 2442582431     PISSN: 01976664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0022-2445.2004.0008.x     Document Type: Article

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