Ageing as a Global Challenge in the New Millennium

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Ageing as a Global Challenge in the New Millennium

John Grimley Evans, 

• https://doi.org/10.1038/npg.els.0003395

John Grimley Evans, 

John Grimley Evans

Green College, University of Oxford, UK

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John Grimley Evans, 

John Grimley Evans

Green College, University of Oxford, UK

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First published: 23 September 2005

https://doi.org/10.1038/npg.els.0003965

Abstract

The impact of demographic change on needs for health and social provision.

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