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Editorial: Families and Aging: From Private Troubles to a Global Agenda

Norah Keating Orcid Logo, Jenny de Jong Gierveld

Canadian Journal on Aging / La Revue canadienne du vieillissement, Volume: 34, Issue: 03, Pages: 261 - 263

Swansea University Author: Norah Keating Orcid Logo

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DOI (Published version): 10.1017/S0714980815000276

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Population aging is a driver of much of the contemporary public debate about families. Families have come onto the public agenda as a backstop against concerns about unsustainable health, economic, and social care systems. Despite evidence of the flow of resources down the generations, and calming v...

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Published in: Canadian Journal on Aging / La Revue canadienne du vieillissement
Published: 2015
Online Access: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0714980815000276
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