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30 Years of African Research on Ageing: History, Achievements and Challenges for the Future


Category: AFRAN - African Research on Ageing Network


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The beginnings of research on ageing in Africa can be traced to the early 1970s, when the United Nations social development section, aware of the dearth of information on older people in developing countries, sponsored nine developing-nation pilot surveys on the socio-economic conditions of the aged.

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