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Supporting Family Caregivers of Older Americans

Jennifer L Wolff1, Judy Feder1, Richard Schulz1

  • 1From the Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore (J.L.W.); the Urban Institute and the McCourt School of Public Policy, Georgetown University (J.F.), and the Committee on Family Caregiving for Older Adults, Health and Medicine Division, National Academies (J.L.W., J.F., R.S.) - all in Washington, DC; and the Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh (R.S.). The other members of the committee were Maria Aranda, Susan Beane, Sara Czaja, Brian Duke, Lynn Friss Feinberg, Laura Gitlin, Lisa Gwyther, Roger Herdman, Ladson Hinton, Peter Kemper, Linda Nichols, Carol Rodat, Charles Sabatino, Karen Schumacher, Alan Stevens, and Donna Wagner.

The New England Journal of Medicine
|December 29, 2016
PubMed
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