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Interventions to assist caregivers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 November 2008

Joanna Moriarty  and
Enid Levin
Joanna Moriarty*
Affiliation:
National Institute for Social Work Research Unit, London, UK
Enid Levin
Affiliation:
National Institute for Social Work Research Unit, London, UK
*
Joanna Moriarty, National Institute for Social Work Research Unit, 5–7 Tavistock Place, London WC1H 9SS, UK.
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Social and psychological gerontology
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Reviews in Clinical Gerontology , Volume 3 , Issue 3 , August 1993 , pp. 301 - 308
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1993

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