Personal Assistance in Sweden and Norway: From Difference to Convergence?

Ole Petter Askheim

doi:10.1080/15017410802145300

Personal Assistance in Sweden and Norway: From Difference to Convergence?

Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research

Volume 10 (2008): Issue 3

By: Ole Petter Askheim

Open Access

|Aug 2008

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