Word: elderly
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...Framingham State College in Massachusetts. Psychologists point out that old people and youngsters, whether related or not, have much to offer each other. An older person can fill a void for a child who does not have a grandparent living nearby. And companionship with a young child bolsters an elder against the isolation and loneliness that often accompany...
Such links also fulfill an important social function. Psychoanalyst Erik Erikson invented the term "generativity" to describe the necessary transmission of life experiences from elder to younger generations. In the 1970s, anthropologist Margaret Mead prophetically wrote that an increasing lack of contact between old and young relatives would create a need for surrogate grandparents...
Without such personal contacts, experts say, stereotypical images emerge. A child can become afraid of older people because he thinks they are going to die. But by spending time with the elderly, kids learn to accept the frailty of the aging while discovering their strengths. In one Pennsylvania program toddlers from a local day-care center spend time with Alzheimer's patients after being read such books as Grandpa Doesn't Know It's Me. Youngsters also learn that death is a natural component of life. Generations Together, for example, is developing a curriculum dealing with separation and loss...
...most evil male characters do, this is due to his priestly duties and possibly to his homosexuality. As a representative of Christianity, he influences, through religion, the two women in the work who most fail to live to the potential of their own womanhood. The first, the elder Etain (Patty Goldman), Conor's mother, dies in child birth seemingly because she is afraid of it. The other, Elen (Jennifer Harris), Angus' molested daughter, turns from her incestuousness to chastity...
...independent homeland. His maternal grandfather produced the first grammar of modern Lithuanian, while his paternal grandfather was exiled to Russia for his opposition to czarist rule. Landsbergis' father Vytautas, one of Lithuania's leading architects, was a volunteer in the fight for independence in 1918 and, with his elder son Gabrielius, took part in an attempt to create an independent Lithuania during World...