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Aging policy analysis and evaluation is a dynamic careful, systematic, and empirical study, administering under changing social, political, and economic situations, which allows examining how the physical, the mental, and social condition of aged people changes and how public policies ought to evolve to meet the changing needs of a changing world (Anderson 2006; Dunn 2012). Aging policy analysis and evaluation play a crucial role in assisting in defining and outlining the goals of a proposed aging policy and in figuring out the gap between expected outcomes and predicted costs with competing for alternative policies (Kraft and Furlong 2012).
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Aging policy analysis and evaluation is not a new and contemporary pressing issue; instead, it is a debating issue since the early nineteenth century, and perhaps it was first systematically analyzed...
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Mollah, M.A.H. (2019). Aging Policy Analysis and Evaluation. In: Gu, D., Dupre, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Gerontology and Population Aging. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69892-2_212-1
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