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health care system for older adults  

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  • During 2006, most health policy experts would categorically deny that there is a health care system for older adults in the United States. Health services researchers have frequently used the term “the health care nonsystem” to describe what is available to the older population. [Source: Encyclopedia of Health & Aging; Health Care System for Older Adults]

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