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The paper describes the types of “grandparent” roles. The emphasis is made not on the mechanisms of interaction between the generations, but on different socio-psychological issues: the role of an elderly person in the family, the extent of his/her involvement in the problems of the family, the quality of participation of grandparent in the life of grandchildren and children. Psychological mechanisms of dialogue between grandparents and children are considered. It is shown that their interaction is carried out during the broadcast of experience from older generation to the younger one. On the examples of carried out studies it is shown that elderly people can join dialogue with children that can give birth to meanings and deep-laid values. The necessity of the transfer of basic psychological knowledge to grandparents in order to optimize the broadcast of their experience is stated.