A revelation of numbers: Will America's eldercare workforce be ready to care for an aging America?

Generations

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 11-19

  Bragg, Elizabeth ^a   Hansen, Jennie Chin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b American Geriatrics Society   (United States)

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