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Language: en
Pages: 260
Pages: 260
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-08-26 - Publisher: Springer Nature
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Language: en
Pages: 244
Pages: 244
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-09-16 - Publisher: Routledge
Throughout the world’s hinterland regions, people are growing old in resource-dependent communities that were neither originally designed nor presently equipp
Language: en
Pages: 368
Pages: 368
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-11-10 - Publisher: National Academies Press
In sub-Saharan Africa, older people make up a relatively small fraction of the total population and are supported primarily by family and other kinship networks
Language: en
Pages: 486
Pages: 486
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-07-31 - Publisher: National Academies Press
The population of Asia is growing both larger and older. Demographically the most important continent on the world, Asia's population, currently estimated to be
Language: en
Pages: 169
Pages: 169
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-05-14 - Publisher: Policy Press
This important book addresses a growing international interest in 'age-friendly' communities. It examines the conflicting stereotypes of rural communities as ei