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Ageing in Wales: policy responses to an ageing population

Judith E Phillips, Vanessa Burholt Orcid Logo

Contemporary Wales, Volume: 19, Issue: 1, Pages: 180 - 197

Swansea University Author: Vanessa Burholt Orcid Logo

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<p>Wales is ageing at a greater rate than its counterparts in the UK. Nearly one in four people are over the age of sixty and one in eight are over seventy. The demographic shift over the last forty years, during which the numbers over eighty-five have increased fourfold, has meant that policy...

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Published in: Contemporary Wales
Published: 2007
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title Ageing in Wales: policy responses to an ageing population
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