Struggling for recognition: Working carers of older people in Japan and Taiwan

Combining Paid Work and Family Care: Policies and Experiences in International Perspective

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 89-104

  Wang, Frank T Y ^a   Shimmei, Masaya ^b   Yamada, Yoshiko ^c   Osawa, Machiko ^d  

^a NATIONAL CHENGCHI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF GERONTOLOGY   (Japan)

^c Japan Workers Cooperative Union   (Japan)

^d JAPAN WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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