What About Our Responsibility Toward the Abandoned Elderly?.

Donahue, Wilma T.

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ERIC Number: EJ177246

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Publication Date: 1978

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What About Our Responsibility Toward the Abandoned Elderly?

Donahue, Wilma T.

Gerontologist, 18, 2, 102-11, Apr 78

The deinstitutionalization policy has excluded older people from the mental health system and has resulted in abandoning many of them. Causes of this failure are discussed. Suggestions are made for rescuing the abandoned elderly. Presented at the Gerontological Society meeting, November, 1977, San Francisco. (Author/JEL)

Descriptors: Community Services, Deinstitutionalization (of Disabled), Mental Health Programs, Psychiatric Services, Public Support, Social Responsibility, Speeches, State of the Art Reviews

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