Editorial: Northern Lights: Reflections on Canadian Gerontological Research
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The occasion of the first meeting in Canada of the International Association of Gerontology (LAG) provides the Canadian Journal on Aging with a unique opportunity to review the state of the fields of gerontology and geriatrics in our country and to place that review in an international context. In this introduction to this special supplement of the Canadian Journal on Aging, we briefly overview the demographic context of aging in Canada; highlight selected features of gerontological and geriatric research in Canada in recent years, and describe several recent initiatives; and we outline the structure and focus of this volume.
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