Desire to Institutionalize a Relative With Dementia: Quality of Premorbid Relationship and Caregiver Gender

Family Relations

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 221-230

  Winter, Laraine ^a   Gitlin, Laura N ^a   Dennis, Marie ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Caregiver and recipient well being; Caregiving of the elderly; Gender differences; Social relations across the life course

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952401338     PISSN: 01976664     EISSN: 17413729     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-3729.2010.00644.x     Document Type: Article

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