In this Time magazine article, Faith Salie describes how changing demographic patterns such has having children later in life and living long distances from relatives can change and/or limit children’s connections to grandparents.  Her lament is real and worth pondering.  

Although her focus is on the loss for children (and their parents), we should also list the losses for grandparents and older adults.  Age segregation (especially older, fragile adults with little or not contact with young people may be also undermining life satisfaction and well-being of the elderly.