Building community through meals in the care home setting: Experience from Denmark

Food, Culture and Society

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 665-678

  Kofod, Jens ^a  

^a VIVE THE DANISH CENTER FOR SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Elderly people; Family meals; Institutionalized care

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870862991     PISSN: 15528014     EISSN: 17517443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2752/175174412X13450256411376     Document Type: Article

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