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Abstract enElderly people have unproblematically lived within the Turkish traditional family structures. However, their social position has been affected by the macro-social changes of modernization since 1950’s. Industrial transformation and urbanization have weakened traditional social ties. In rural areas, older people are responsible for the management of agricultural activities. However, family members have avoided this economic dependency through education or occupational diversity. Families have become smaller. Younger families  have begun to live far away from their aging parents, siblings and close relatives. Together with changing lifestyles, the social ties between younger and older generations are changing with the values and difficulties of daily life. Accordingly, some younger families see old people as dependent and problematic. For some families, this leads to irregular behavior toward older people. Some families explicitly neglect and abuse older people, and they are aware of this. Other families unintentionally abuse and neglect the elderly due to the burdens of daily life. Today, the most significant elderly problem is that there is a lack of sufficient formally institutionalized interest in them. It is not certain that the elderly will obtain interest or care in living spaces that lack institutionalized care.  Recent projections on aging lead to discussions regarding the possible problems of being an old society. This study discusses the changing perspective on the elderly with modernization as well as the data on violence, abuse and neglect.To this end, this study attempts to examine the phenomenon of elderliness considering the problems of modernization in previous studies conducted on the data of an empirical study and within the scope of the field of interest

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