Partner or perish? Exploring inter-organisational partnerships in the multicultural community aged care sector

Health and Social Care in the Community

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 550-560

  Radermacher, Harriet ^a   Karunarathna, Yoshitha ^a   Grace, Nicci ^a   Feldman, Susan ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Community aged care services; Culturally and linguistically diverse; Ethnicity; Multicultural; Partnerships

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; COMMUNITY CARE; COOPERATION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; AUSTRALIA; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

EID: 79960724811     PISSN: 09660410     EISSN: 13652524     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2524.2011.01007.x     Document Type: Article

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