ABSTRACT
One of the primary goals of this book is to bring together a variety of theories and research about intergenerational communication in various relational and community contets to present a fresh look at this area of research inquiry. This epilogue summarizes the main themes of the book and in doing so revisits some of the main theoretical perspectives in a final attempt to bring the theories and research together. This is done to elucidate various aspects of intergenerational communication and to point to some avenues for further research. This epilogue goes one step further as well, conceptualizing older adults as a social group, it picks up several of the tenets of structuration and intergroup theory to explore the means by which social changes in the status of old age in Western society might occur.
