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Families in Ageing Societies$
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Sarah Harper

Print publication date: 2004

Print ISBN-13: 9780199251162

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: July 2005

DOI: 10.1093/0199251169.001.0001

The American Family as a Context for Healthy Ageing

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(p. 176 ) 10 The American Family as a Context for Healthy Ageing
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Families in Ageing Societies
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Sarah Harper (Contributor Webpage)

Publisher:
Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/0199251169.003.0011

This chapter examines the impact of contemporary American family structure on the ageing process. It is shown that mature Americans will have increasingly heterogeneous family histories and statues. Thus, the importance of family to the ageing experience will increase.

Keywords:   healthy ageing, American family structure, social structure, family context, family relationships

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