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The rapid growth of communes of elderly people in the Netherlands has attracted international attention & become a social policy issue. The government & institutional care providers view these as informal homes for the aged, whereas the elderly themselves see the communes as positive alternatives to traditional ideas on aging. Here, in a theoretical interpretation, it is shown that both the communes & the different reactions to them represent important developments concerning aging & the position of the aged in Western society, as well as major trends in the modernization process.
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