Generation and Perceptions of Old Age: An Urban-Rural Comparison

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This paper examines differences in perceptions of old age existing between two generations—one aged 20 to 29 and the other aged 60 and over. Compared with the younger generation, the older age group revealed more concern about worries and work problems in old age, a stronger conviction about positive characteristics of old people, and a greater interdependency in their perceptions. No statistically significant differences were found between generations in their views about segregating older people or about forming political organizations of the aged. It appears that generational differences in perceptions are influenced by culturally imposed stereotypes of old age and by the developmental process—a process that is somewhat different in the rural environment.

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