The Importance of Relationship: Elders and Their Paid Family Caregivers in the Arkansas Cash and Counseling Qualitative Study

The Journal of Applied Gerontology

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 31-48

  Antonio, Patricia M San ^a   Eckert, J Kevin ^a   Simon Rusinowitz, Lori ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Cash and Counseling; consumer direction; elders with disabilities; family caregivers; paid family care

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247673571     PISSN: 07334648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0733464805282537     Document Type: Article

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