“Vieni da Nonna Tua, Vieni!” A commentary on the social construction of grandmothers and its impact on older women’s lives

Abstract

Grandmother represents a biological denomination and a social construct with important implications in the everyday life of individuals worldwide. This concept is particularly important in occidental communities, with considerable emphasis on African, and South European and American countries, while it seems to have a lower, but not irrelevant, influence in North American communities [1]. The role grandmothers exert is multifactorial and involves multiple spheres of societies’ organization