Perspectives on the Family Life of the Elderly in 1900.

Dahlin, Michel

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Publication Date: 1980-Feb

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Perspectives on the Family Life of the Elderly in 1900.

Dahlin, Michel

Gerontologist, v20 n1 p99-107 Feb 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, Heads of Households, History, Older Adults, Perspective Taking, Trend Analysis

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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