Abstract
Old people who join age-segregated organizations have several advantages over their peers. They start with additional personal resources—physical, social, emotional, and material. Through association with peers they are able in addition to confront age-related losses in a supportive setting. The old people's clubs and Christian fellowships that provide a focus for this anthropological study are viewed as sources of social integration; vehicles for the expression of generational consciousness; arenas for the acquisiton of virtue; and contexts for the activities of friendship. Questions are raised finally about the theoretical implications of peer-grouping in old age. The cultivation of generational distinctiveness is seen as both a cause of and response to age segregation.
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