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Wages for caring : compensating family care of the elderly / Nathan L.
Linsk . . . [et al.].
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-275-93635-X (alk. paper)
1. Aged -- Home care -- United States -- Finance. 2. Caregivers --
Salaries, etc. -- United States. 3. Aged -- United States -- Family
relationships. I. Linsk, Nathan L.
HV1465.W24 1992
331.2'813626 -- dc20 91-37512

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data is available.

Copyright © 1992 by Nathan L. Linsk, Sharon M. Keigher, Lori Simon-Rusinowitz,
and Suzanne E. England

All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be
reproduced, by any process or technique, without
the express written consent of the publisher.

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 91-37512
ISBN 0-275-93635-X

First published in 1992

Praeger Publishers, One Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10010
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Copyright Acknowledgments

The authors and publisher wish to thank the following for use of material from:

N. L. Linsk, S. M. Keigher, and S. E. England (Osterbusch), "States' Policies Regarding
Paid Family Caregiving", The Gerontologist, vol. 28, no. 2, 1988, pp. 204-212, Copyright ©
The Gerontological Society of America, reprinted with permission.

S. E. England, N. L. Linsk, L. Simon-Rusinowitz, and S. M. Keigher, "Paid Family Care-
giving and the Market View of Home Care: Agency Perspectives", Journal of Health and Social
Policy, vol. 1, pp. 31-54, 1990, University of Connecticut School of Social Work, reprinted
with permission.

S. M. Keigher, L. Simon-Rusinowitz, N. L. Linsk, and S. E. Osterbusch, "Payments to
Informal versus Formal Home Care Providers: Policy Divergence Affecting the Elderly and
Their Families in Michigan and Illinois", Journal of Applied Gerontology, vol. 7, no. 4, pp.
456-473. Copyright 1988 by Sage Publications, reprinted with permission of Sage Publica-
tions, Inc.

S. M. Keigher, S. E. Osterbusch, and N. L. Linsk, "Paid Family Caregiving for the Elderly:
Good for the Poor?" Health and Social Work, vol. 12(1), pp. 64-66; N. L. Linsk,
S. E. Osterbusch, L. Simon-Rusinowitz, and S. M. Keigher, "Community Agency Support of
Family Caregiving", "Health and Social Work", vol. 13(3), pp. 209-218. Copyright 1987 and
1988, National Association of Social Workers, Inc.

S. E. England, N. L. Linsk, L. Simon-Rusinowitz, and S. M. Keigher, "Paying Kin for Care:
Agency Barriers to Formalizing Informal Care", Journal of Aging and Social Policy, vol. 2, no.
2, 1990, pp. 63-86, reprinted with permission of The Haworth Press.

G. J. Schieber and J. P. Poullier, "International Health Care Expenditure Trends", 1987,
Journal of Health Affairs, Fall 1989, Project HOPE, reprinted with permission.

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