Policies to support informal care

Long-Term Care Reforms in OECD Countries Successes and Failures

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 219-244

  Schneider, Ulrike ^a   Sundström, Gerdt ^b   Johansson, Lennarth ^c   Tortosa, María A ^d  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Austria)

^b JÖNKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

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