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In Chapter 9, Ouellette takes us into a different institutional sector, defined in one sense as "non-work" -the domain of leisure. In the context of Canadian research on aging and leisure, he reviews several studies done by himself and others in New Brunswick. Physical activity is an increasingly important leisure pursuit for the elderly, but by no means the only one. The elderly are posing new demands on the educational system and creating new organizations for recreational, tourist and sedentary leisure pursuits. Any person's life can be quite fully described in terms of the three domains of work, leisure, and family. The next three chapters in the book deal with this third domain, the family. The impact of population aging on family life is described by Rosenthal and Gladstone in Chapter 10. The family is neither dead nor dying, but its structure is different, with the typical family having more generations but fewer people at each generational level. People have more opportunities, over a longer period of time than in earlier historical periods, to live out family relationships with parents and grandparents, siblings and children. With the oldest generation living longer, the f

Who reads Aging : Canadian Perspectives?

Author

Marshall, Victor (editor);McPherson, Barry (editor)

Publisher

University of Toronto Press

Published

1994

Language

EN

ISBN

9781442602342

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Family & Relationships, Science, Sociology