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Kabir, Z.N., Szebehely, M., Tishelman, C. et al. Aging trends -- Making an invisible population visible: The elderly in Bangladesh. Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology 13, 361–378 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1006536217913

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