Using participatory approaches with older people in a residential home in Guyana: challenges and tensions.
Participatory approaches are a popular and entrenched strategy in community development, yet a number of unresolved issues and tensions persist regarding the definition, rationales, outcomes and ethics of participation. Despite its popularity there are relatively few examples of participatory projec...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology Vol. 28; no. 1; pp. 1 - 26 |
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Springer Nature
Mar2013
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