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The article presents old age as a phase of an elderly person’s life in which his/her social roles, especially family roles, are subject to change. In spite of these changes, family is still thought to be a fundamental plane of one’s emotional functioning, it is where intergenerational transmission takes place. However, there are such events in the elderly person’s life as illness, suffering and death that abolish intergenerational divisions, becoming a sphere of common searching for the best ways of going through them.