Access to residential care in Beijing, China: Making the decision to relocate to a residential care facility

Ageing and Society

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1277-1299

  Cheng, Yang ^a   Rosenberg, Mark W ^b   Wang, Wuyi ^c   Yang, Linsheng ^c   Li, Hairong ^c  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

Author keywords

access; decision making; qualitative study; residential care

Indexed keywords

ACCESSIBILITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DECISION MAKING; ELDERLY CARE; ELDERLY POPULATION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS;

BEIJING [CHINA]; CHINA;

EID: 84867488071     PISSN: 0144686X     EISSN: 14691779     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0144686X11000870     Document Type: Article

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