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Safford, Florence – 1987
The myth persists that the elderly are institutionalized because their relatives do not care enough about them. Nursing home staff may not respond to family members' concerns about their relatives with any better solutions than to take their relatives home. Family response to this lack of solution may be retreat or retaliation. Thus the…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Family Involvement, Family Role, Family (Sociological Unit)
