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Editorial: Back to Bismarck? The Public Policy Implications of Living Longer

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 March 2010

John Myles
John Myles
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University Of Toronto
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Canadian Journal on Aging / La Revue canadienne du vieillissement , Volume 21 , Issue 3 , Fall/Automne 2002 , pp. 325 - 329
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Copyright © Canadian Association on Gerontology 2002

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