Does gender moderate factors associated with whether spouses are the sole providers of IADL care to their partners?

Research on Aging

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 499-526

  Feld, Sheila ^a   Dunkle, Ruth E ^a   Schroepfer, Tracy ^b   Shen, Huei Wern ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Activities of daily living; Caregiving husbands; Caregiving wives

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952651048     PISSN: 01640275     EISSN: 15527573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0164027510361461     Document Type: Article

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