Social services for elderly persons
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Social support among unmarried childless elderly persons.
OBJECTIVES This article examines the availability, exchange, and receipt of informal support for unmarried childless elderly persons. These individuals may be at particular risk of lacking social support because they lack the two most important sources: spouses and children. METHODS Using data drawn from the 1991 Canadian Survey on Aging and Independence (N = 1,078), ordered-response logistic...
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عنوان ژورنال: Ревија за социјална политика/Journal of Social Policy
سال: 2019
ISSN: 1857-6052,1857-8977
DOI: 10.37509/socpol19150049d