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The official rate of Canadians 65 and older living in poverty is six per cent. But the number could be more than double that, new research warns.

Using the case study of the Kibera slums, this paper takes a medical anthropological approach to discuss and explain the untold and common practice among the urban poor in developing countries that is ...