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Peer reviewedDahlin, Michel – Gerontologist, 1980
A sample of the aged derived from the 1900 federal manuscript census reveals that when aged parents and children coresided, the old were more often the heads of houses than their children. Unlike the aged today, they continued to work and to have children at home as they did in middle age. (Author)
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Comparative Analysis, Family Life, Gerontology
