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This chapter has the goal of re-examining and expanding the results of previous analyses conducted within the INTERLINKS project from the perspectives of two groups of users of long-term care services: first, older people who are frequently faced with difficult decisions about how to reorganise their daily lives and obtain care because of declining health and functional abilities; second, their family, friends and neighbours who form a more or less extended ‘social network’ of co-care providers, and who informally provide most of the required support, help and care.
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© 2013 Michel Naiditch, Judy Triantafillou, Patrizia Di Santo, Stephanie Carretero and Elisabeth Hirsch Durrett
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Naiditch, M., Triantafillou, J., Di Santo, P., Carretero, S., Durrett, E.H. (2013). User Perspectives in Long-Term Care and the Role of Informal Carers. In: Leichsenring, K., Billings, J., Nies, H. (eds) Long-Term Care in Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137032348_3
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