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Peer reviewedRowles, Graham D. – International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 1983
Used a four-year participant observation study of 15 older adults in an Appalacian town to explore the tensions between factors that encourage relocation to the homes of children who moved outside the area and the inertia caused by reluctance to give up a familiar lifestyle and local friends. (JAC)
Descriptors: Family Relationship, Gerontology, Life Style, Migration Patterns
