Unheard voices, unmapped terrain: Care work in long-term residential care for older people in Canada and Sweden

International Journal of Social Welfare

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 139-148

  Daly, Tamara ^a   Szebehely, Marta ^b  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Canada; Gender; Long term care work; Sweden; Work organisation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857796801     PISSN: 13696866     EISSN: 14682397     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2397.2011.00806.x     Document Type: Article

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