In the agricultural era of the United States,
a. most workers retired before age 65.
b. stopping work tended to be abrupt.
c. the older farmer with property could usually support themselves in old age.
d. most elders ended up in alms houses or died of malnutrition or neglect.
ANSWER: c
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