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There is something intriguing about the concepts of aging and old age as they are commonly perceived today. Our ambivalent attitude towards aging, as a social phenomenon and as a personal predicament, seems to be rooted in vague and contradictory ideas of what aging is, and of what it is to be aging. As a result, both personal attitudes and public policies need analysis and clarification.
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© 1982 Sandoz Institute for Health and Socio-Economic Studies
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Hytten, E. (1982). A view from the UN. In: Aging 2000. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-6273-9_24
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