The Status of Older Adult Care in Contemporary Ghana: A Profile of Some Emerging Issues
The paper examines how the healthcare and social care pillars of social policy for aging societies shape inequalities in health and well-being at old age, utilizing qualitative and quantitative datasets. The results intimate the lack of geriatric infrastructure, hence the inadequacy of geriatric car...
Main Author: | Delali Adjoa Dovie |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2019-04-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Sociology |
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Online Access: | https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fsoc.2019.00025/full |
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