This volume-"Selected Contemporary Challenges of Aging Policy"-is the most international of all published monographs from the series "Czech-Polish-Slovak Studie

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Population ageing - a growth in the proportion of a population that is in older age - is now occurring in every region and nearly every country of the world. In

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