Caregiving intensity and retirement status in Canada

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 102, Issue , 2014, Pages 74-82

  Jacobs, Josephine C ^a   Laporte, Audrey ^a   Van Houtven, Courtney H ^b   Coyte, Peter C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Canada; Employment; Informal care; Retirement; Unpaid caregiving

Indexed keywords

CANADA; EMPLOYMENT; INFORMAL CARE; RETIREMENT; UNPAID CAREGIVING;

AGED; CANADA; CAREGIVERS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATA COLLECTION; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; HOME NURSING; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETIREMENT; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84894277542     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2013.11.051     Document Type: Article

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