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In their lifetime, older blacks have experienced discrimination and disadvantages that have discouraged healthy life-styles and economic and subjective well-being. The family support system and a non-contributory pension system have helped overcome some of the negative effects. South Africa’s Reconstruction and Development Program, which tends to favor youth over the elderly, poses a threat to existing service provision but also promises greater empowerment of the elderly and the benefits of a community-driven comprehensive family care system.

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  1. the HSRC/UCT Center for Gerontology at the University of Cape Town, South Africa

    Monica Ferreira PhD (Director)

  2. the Center for Social and Development Studies at the University of Natal in Durban, South Africa

    Frances Lund M.Soc.Sc. (social policy analyst, researcher)

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She is the editor of theSouthern African Journal of Gerontology. Her major research interests lie in cross-cultural studies on aging in Africa.

Her major interests are rural development, social security, and the management of change.

PhD, is Professor in the Center for Social and Development Studies at the University of Natal and heads the Quality of Life and RDP Monitoring Unit. Her main gerontological research interest is quality of life studies and their application to the lives of older persons in society.

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Ferreira, M., Lund, F. & Møller, V. Status report from South Africa. Ageing International 22, 16–20 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02681902

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