The burden of long-term care: How Italian family care-givers become employers

Ageing and Society

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 755-777

  Degiuli, Francesca ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

care work; elder care; immigration; Italy; welfare state

Indexed keywords

AGING POPULATION; ATTITUDINAL SURVEY; ELDERLY CARE; IMMIGRATION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; WELFARE PROVISION;

ITALY;

EID: 77957261929     PISSN: 0144686X     EISSN: 14691779     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0144686X10000073     Document Type: Article

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