‘Comfort, security, dignity’: Home care for Canada’s aging veterans, 1977-2004

Essays in Honour of Michael Bliss: Figuring the Social

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 315-350

  Struthers, James ^a  

^a TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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4. Marcus Hollander, Final Report of the Study on the Comparative Cost Analysis of Home Care and Residential Care Services (Victoria: National Evaluation of the Cost-Effectiveness of Home Care, 2001) provides the most thorough Canadian analysis of the cost advantages of home care over residential care.
5. VAC, Veterans Affairs Canada-Canadian Forces Advisory Council Reference Paper, The Origins and Evolution of Veterans’ Benefits in Canada, 1914-2004, ‘J. Consolidation and Adaptation,’ March 2004 http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/general/sub.cfm?source=councils/vaccfac/reference accessed 22 September 2005.
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