Perceptions of elder abuse in Sweden: Voices of older persons

Brief Treatment and Crisis Intervention

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 213-227

  Erlingsson, Christen L ^a   Saveman, Britt Inger ^a   Berg, Agneta C ^a  

^a LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Coping; Elder abuse; Focus groups; Qualitative content analysis; Robbery

Indexed keywords

EID: 27244449623     PISSN: 14743310     EISSN: 14743329     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brief-treatment/mhi017     Document Type: Article

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