Racial and ethnic differences in family caregiving in California

Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 85-109

  Giunta, Nancy ^a,b   Chow, Julian ^a   Scharlach, Andrew E ^a,b   Dal Santo, Teresa S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Center for Advanced Studies   (United States)

^c University of California at Berkeley ^*

Author keywords

Caregiving; Ethnic differences; Formal service use

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248605792     PISSN: 10911359     EISSN: 15403556     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J137v09n04_05     Document Type: Article

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