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Words Matter: The Language of Family Caregiving

The authors discuss the vocabulary used to describe caregivers, They mention the role of family caregiving in geriatric care, how the use of the word "informal" to describe this caregiving is inadequate for the work that is done, and efforts to change how family caregivers are described.

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Type of Reference
Jour
Type of Work
Editorial
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons
ISBN/ISSN
0002-8614
Publication Year
2019
Issue Number
10
Journal Titles
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
Volume Number
67
Start Page
2008
End Page
2010