Is respect for the elderly in America comparable to other cultures?

Is respect for the elderly in America comparable to other cultures?

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We tend to romanticize and idealize the treatment of the elderly in other cultures. So even in our culture, when a grandparent died, it was automatically thought that he or she would go live with the married children. Not so these days.