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Close relatives and members of family groups — grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins — keep in touch, but they see less of each other than they . This is because people often move away from their home town to work, and so the family becomes scattered. The traditional season for the family reunion is Christmas when relatives many miles to spend it together.
In general, each generation is eager to become independent of parents in establishing its family unit, and this fact can bring about social as well as geographical differences within the larger family group. There are about 10 million old-age pensioners in Britain, of whom about 8% cannot live entirely independently. The government financial help in the form of a pension, but it more and more difficult for the normal economy to support the increasing number of elderly people. Nowadays, more than half of all old people are looked after at home. Many others in Old People’s Homes, which may be private or state-owned.