Recognizing the need for gender-responsive fanilly caregiving policy: Lessons from male caregivers

Caring for the Elderly in Japan and the U.S.: Practices and Policies

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 248-271

  Harris, Phyllis Braudy ^a   Long, Susan Orpett ^a  

^a JOHN CARROLL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203464472-25     Document Type: Chapter

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