Caregivers of elderly with advanced cancer: Vulnerable actors;Cuidador do idoso com câncer avançado: Um ator vulnerado

Cadernos de Saude Publica

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 527-534

  Floriani, Ciro Augusto ^a,b   Schramm, Fermin Roland ^a  

^a Fundacao Educacional Serra dos Orgaos   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Aged; Caregivers; Home Nursing; Neoplasms

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646428626     PISSN: 0102311X     EISSN: 16784464     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/s0102-311x2006000300007     Document Type: Article

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