Using Participatory Approaches with Older People in a Residential Home in Guyana: Challenges and Tensions

Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-25

  Hewitt, Gillian ^a   Draper, Alizon K ^a   Ismail, Suraiya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Guyana; Participation; Process evaluation; Residential homes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874429379     PISSN: 01693816     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10823-012-9182-1     Document Type: Article

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