Perspectives on the Family Life of the Elderly in 1900

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Abstract
The stereotype of the old of the past nestled in the bosom of their family obscures the real living situation of old people. A sample of the aged derived from the 1900 federal manuscript census reveals that when aged parents and children co-resided the old were more often the heads of the house than their children. In many respects, the old in 1900 were indistinguishable from other adults. Unlike the aged today, they continued to work and to have children at home as they did in middle age.

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