Elder caregiving in south-asian families in the United States and India

Social Work and Society

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Gupta, Rashmi ^a   Pillai, Vijayan K ^b  

^a SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

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