International Aging: Spotlighting the Spotlights.

The article highlights developments on understanding world-wide aging as of 2017. Topics discussed include declining fertility rates and increasing life expectancies, the challenges to health care systems and retirement policies of increasing longevity, the promotion of healthy aging and minimal dis...

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Published in:Gerontologist Vol. 57; no. 3; pp. 392 - 396
Main Author: Pruchno, Rachel
Format: Article
Published: Oxford University Press / USA Jun2017
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