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We commonly assume that elderly parents co-residing with adult children is a pattern from the late nineteenth an early twentieth centuries. "The 2006 Census shows us that in reality this pattern has persisted in the twenty first century with more than one in 10 older people in their eighties and nineties sharing dwellings with their adult children". This pattern is even more common among certain immigrant groups (such as those from Greece, Italy, Poland, Turkey and China), and particularly so for older women from these countries”