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Adult Foster Care

Known as: Care, Adult Foster, Foster Care, Adult 
An elderly person's placement with another family when independent living is no longer possible, but nursing care is not necessary.
National Institutes of Health

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Foster Home Care
skilled nursing facility

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2013
2013
Authors' response to commentaries on 'physical activity does not influence obesity risk'.
16–21. 3 Hunter GR, Bickel CS, Fisher G, Neumeier W, McCarthy J. Combined Aerobic/Strength Training and Energy Expenditure in… 
2010
2010
To what extent does current policy and practice pay adequate attention to the needs of the sons and daughters of foster carers, particularly in the context of planned or unplanned placement endings?
"Overall aim: To undertake an initial scoping study of current knowledge, policy and practice (including aspects of relevance to… 
2007
2007
Child Protection Workers’ Perceptions of Foster Carers and the Foster Care System: A Study in Queensland
Abstract Child protection workers are key players in the statutory system for the protection of children and young people. For… 
2006
2006
Discipline Practices Among Biological and Foster Parents
In a sample of 124 parents (62 pairs of biological and foster parents) of children who were maltreated (M age = 6.2 years), this… 
2004
2004
Comparison of role perceptions of white and African American foster parents.
The number of U.S. children entering foster care is increasing faster than the number of available foster parents. Of particular… 
2004
2004
Living with foster siblings - what impact has fostering on the biological children of foster carers?
1996
1996
The Kinship Triad: A Service Delivery Model
Even though child placement agencies have come to recognize that kinship care provides continuity for the child's familial and… 
Review
1988
Review
1988
The role of foster parents in helping young people develop emancipation skills.
The current focus on preparing youths in foster care for emancipation has largely ignored the critical role foster parents have… 
1981
1981
When Foster Children Leave: Helping Foster Parents to Grieve.
1974
1974
Investigation of the composition and formation constant of molecular complexes.
It has been the purpose of the present paper to investigate and explore the conditions under which the linear relation between… 
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