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Vol.1, No.2, 38-46 (2012) Advances in Aging Research /10.4236/aar.2012.12005 Canadian provincial, territorial, and federal government aging policies: A systematic review * Donna Marie Wilson , Jane Osei-Waree, Jessica Anne Hewitt, Andrew Broad * Faculty of Nursing, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada; Corresponding Author: donna.wilson@ualberta.ca Received 3 July 2012; revised 5 August 2012; accepted 12 August 2012 ABSTRACT ber of persons who not only reach old age but also often reach advanced old age [3,4]. Although some futurists are In most countries, population aging is becoming suggesting that the babyboom cohort is more likely to be more evident now that the first members of the healthy and to work past age 65 as compared to previous large babyboom cohort have reached 65 years cohorts [1,5], much concern exists in general about the of age. As an accelerating increase in the num- impact of an aging population on the social and economic ber of older persons and the proportion of the welfare of the country [3,4,6-11]. This concern is not sur- public aged 65 and older will now occur, plan- prising, as health service utilization studies have consis-