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It is a great pleasure to contribute to this volume in honor of Professor Ursula Lehr. Prof. Lehr’s work has been extremely important in increasing our understanding of continuity and change in family relationships in old age. Indeed, her work with the Bonn Longitudinal Study of Aging has been the only source of longitudinal information about family support, contact, and involvement in old age. It has inspired my own work with the Berkeley Older Generation Study, and I am happy to be able to acknowledge my debt to her and to her pioneering studies.
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Field, D. (1990). Longitudinal Studies of Families in Advanced Old Age: The Family is “Forever”. In: Schmitz-Scherzer, R., Kruse, A., Olbrich, E. (eds) Altern — Ein lebenslanger Prozeß der sozialen Interaktion. Steinkopff. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-72448-0_30
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