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This ethnographic study will describe the rise and fall of the country's first attempt at intergenerational involvement within a campus based retirement setting. It will discuss those factors responsible for the initial limited success of the project and its ensuing failure. These include the lack of competent support staff, funding, security problems, and a change in the administrative agency. Policy statements regarding future projects of this kind are also considered.
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An earlier version of this paper was read at the Annual Meetings of the Southwest Anthropological Association, April, 1974.
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Jacobs, J. The demise of community at high heaven. Qual Sociol 3, 45–58 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00986779
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00986779