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Why generational gaps can make you feel irrelevant to family

My grandchildren only visit when their parents make them and they spend the whole time looking at their phones like I don't exist.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Technology and cultural divides between generations can create painful disconnection between older adults and younger family members.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

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