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retirement systems  

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  • Issues of retirement and old age affect societies globally. In pre-industrialized societies, expected lifetimes were much shorter than they are today, and the elderly lived in multigenerational families with their children and grandchildren. [Source: Encyclopedia of Global Studies; Retirement Systems]

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