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family relationships in late adulthood  

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  • Changing demographics and societal beliefs offer new opportunities for maintaining and expanding family relationships in late adulthood. Early definitions of aging families focused on relations between husbands and wives, parents and children, and, to a lesser extent, grandparents and grandchildren and siblings. [Source: Encyclopedia of Human Relationships; Family Relationships in Late Adulthood]

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