Overview: Ageing issues for Australian families
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December 2003
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Abstract
This introduction first offers a brief discussion of some of the issues associated with population ageing. An overview is then provided of the set of papers in this edition of Family Matters, which take various approaches to understanding the effects and consequences of ageing for Australian families, and the roles of older people within families.
This introduction first offers a brief discussion of some of the issues associated with population ageing. An overview is then provided of the set of papers in this edition of Family Matters, which take various approaches to understanding the effects and consequences of ageing for Australian families, and the roles of older people within families.