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| Friendship and intimacy among elderly women | | Author(s) | Dorothy Jerrome |
| Journal title | IN: Lifestyle and the use of time in old age; edited by Jonathan Long, 1981 |
| Publisher | Tourism and Recreation Research Unit, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, 1981 |
| Pages | pp 18-24 |
| Keywords | Older women ; Personal relationships ; Friends ; Social characteristics [elderly]. |
| Annotation | A paper presented at the workshop held at the British Society of Gerontology (BSG) Conference held in Aberdeen in 1980. How women in later life make friends and they come to terms with the losses of social relationships in giving up a job or in losing a spouse or dependent relative. This paper considers strategies for making friends in retirement, such as joining a social club. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-930609104 A |
| Classmark | BD: DS: SX: F |
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