Which of the following statements is not true of older adult relationships?
a. After 50 years of marriage, a couple can face new and severe challenges to their relationship.
b. Older adults often hold their families to-gether by arranging get-togethers and do-cumenting the family's history and rituals.
c. Losing a brother or sister brings an older adult face-to-face with his or her own death.
d. For older adults, friends can never take the place of family.
D
Friendships can provide the commitment and support that is sometimes lacking in family rela-tionships.
Physical and psychosocial changes related to aging, such as declining health, reduced in-come, and mismatched needs, may cause a severe strain even for a couple who has been together for 50 years or more. A person who holds his or her family together by arranging get-togethers and documenting the family's history and rituals is known as a kin-keeper. The impact of the loss of a brother or sister, not only at the time of the death but also when a younger survivor reaches the age at which the lost sibling died, can be quite disruptive.
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