Creating The Webbd Wheel: Elders I grew up without healthy elders or healthy parents. I am not alone. Few live in multigeneration family groups and our unhappy culture of superficiality and consumerism is not a context in which human connection easily roots or thrives. I envy those who have wise and seasoned elders of any kind in their life. I’ve always longed for a grandmother, an aunt, or any kind of elder from whom I could receive guidance and understanding.