The pains and reliefs of the transitions into and out of spousal caregiving. A cross-national comparison of the health consequences of caregiving by gender
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Europe; Frailty; Gender; Health inequalities; Informal care; Longitudinal analysis; SHARE; Welfare state;All these keywords.
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