Elder Mistreatment Among Four Asian American Groups: An Exploratory Study on Tolerance, Victim Blaming and Attitudes Toward Third-Party Intervention

Journal of Gerontological Social Work

Volumn 36, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 153-169

  Moon, Ailee ^a   Tomita, Susan K ^b   Jung Kamei, Staci ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Elder mistreatment; Four Asian American groups; Third party intervention and reporting; Tolerance; Victim blaming

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937333673     PISSN: 01634372     EISSN: 15404048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J083v36n01_09     Document Type: Article

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