Aging, Health, and Family: Long-Term Care

by Timothy H. Brubaker

Long term care of the elderly has become an important issue in recent years. Researchers and policy-makers are urgently seeking ways of improving social service systems in response to a dramatic increase in the number of older people as a percentage of the total population. In this comprehensive collection of original papers, leading scholars and practitioners draw on the latest empirical research in their discussion of: the role of family members...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803925913
• ISBN13: 9780803925915
• Release Date: July 1987
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.