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Research on Aging: Providing Evidence for Rescuing the Canadian Health Care System: (Brief submitted to the Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada May 28, 2002)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 March 2010

Réjean Hébert*
Affiliation:
Institute of Aging, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Sherbrooke, Quebec
*
Requests for offprints should be sent to:/Les demandes de tirés-a-part doivent être adressées à : Réjean Hébert, M.D. M.Phil., Scientific Director, Institute of Aging, 1036, Belvédère Sud, Sherbrooke, QC, J1H 4C4. (rejean.hebert@USherbrooke.ca)

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Copyright © Canadian Association on Gerontology 2002

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