"Modernization" and economic strain: The impact of social change on material family support for older people in Ghana

Global Aging and Challenges to Families

Volumn , Issue , 2018, Pages 284-302

  Aboderin, Isabella ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

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