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If we concentrate our attention on that segment of our culture which derives from the written word, we are forced to acknowledge the fact that our ideas about the aged are inherited from two contradictory traditions.
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Slater, P.E. (1964). Cross-cultural views of the aged. In: Kastenbaum, R. (eds) New Thoughts on Old Age. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-38534-0_17
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