Aging Families and Social Networks

Family Life and Aging

• Stages of Family Life
• Elderly "sandwich generation" parents living with their children
• Living in the Sandwich Generation
• 100 and Counting: Secrets to a Long Life

• The Aging U.S. Population and Implications for Family Life

Social Networks and Support

• What makes a good life? Lessons from the longest study on happiness
•  85 year old best friends, this will make your day 
• Social Support and Aging
• Women: How Girlfriends Keep You Healthy and Sane
•  Satisfaction and Aging

Social Isolation

• Social Isolation in Older Adults
• Healing the Epidemic of Isolation for Senior Citizens
• What Does it Feel Like to be Old and Lonely?

• Healing the Epidemic of Isolation for Senior Citizens
• Solutions to Loneliness Among Aging Populations

Grandparents

• Becoming Grandma
• Why Grandparents Are Key to Human Survival
• The opioid crisis is making grandparents become parents again
• Grandparents as Parents
• Grandparents: Successfully Raising Children
• Foster Grandparent and Senior Companion Program

• Things I Learned from My Grandparents

Widowhood

• Elder Loneliness & Widowhood

Global Aging

• Grandparents in Europe: helping with childcare
  
• China's elderly can sue children for neglect