Acceptable and unacceptable risk: balancing everyday risk by family members of older cognitively impaired adults who live alone.

For individuals providing care for older people the issue of risk is a well-established concern, especially in the context of the older person's declining functional abilities and cognitive skills. Recently in expert discussions of health care, the issue of risk has been subsumed under the discourse...

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Published in:Health, Risk & Society Vol. 15; no. 5; pp. 402 - 416
Main Authors: Cott, Cheryl A., Tierney, Mary C.
Format: research Journal Article
Published: Taylor & Francis Ltd Aug2013
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