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Why Cross-Age Friendships Depend on Shared Places

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Cross-age friendships rarely form through good intentions alone. The meeting principle shows that physical, purposeful settings matter far more than goodwill or national active-ageing scores. This discussion unpacks how nineteenth-century institutions separated learning, earning, and retirement into disconnected stages, what European data reveals about cross-generational confidants, and why…