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The Gerontologist, Vol 33, Issue 1 24-30, Copyright © 1993 by The Gerontological Society of America

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Same-gender and cross-gender friendships among the frail elderly

P O'Connor
Department of European Integration and Administration, College of Humanities, University of Limerick, Ireland.

In this article, both the same-gender and cross-gender friendships of a small group (N = 22) of elderly Social Service Department clients in England are described, largely in qualitative terms. The paper raises issues about the importance of cross-gender friendships to the housebound, about gender differentiation within friendships, and about the different characteristics of the two kinds of friendships--ideas that need to be tested in larger, more representative studies.


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