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The methods by which we have dealt with the so-called “problems of the aging” over the past 20 years are in response to attitudes that do not have the best interests of the individual older American at heart. The artificial division of the total life span into chronologically determined segments, each being accorded special treatment, often results in a de facto segregation that ignores the bio-philosophical concept of a continuous filament threading through the life cycle of sentient beings, and vitiates patterns of natural intergenerational family life.
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Banay, I. (1964). Social services for the aged: A reconsideration. In: Kastenbaum, R. (eds) New Thoughts on Old Age. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-38534-0_15
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