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Attitude, Capability, and Service Components

Paul E. Baer, PhD; Karen Morin, MSW; Charles M. Gaitz, MD

Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1970;22(4):343-350.

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CONTRARY to a popular belief that eld_ erly individuals are shunned by their fami_ lies, recent studies of family relationships of the elderly suggest persisting intrafamilial ties. Such ties are implied by findings that there is frequently close residential proximi_ ty between elderly persons and one of their children,¹ that families regularly perform household tasks for their elderly members, that elderly relatives are often housed by the family,³ and that, in general, there is "an impressive amount of mutual support in the form of friendly contact, service and familial aid" between adult family members of differing generations.⁴ It should be noted, however, that such findings apply for samples of elderly individuals who may vary widely in the degree to which they suffer from either age-related or age-independent psychological disturbances.

Since aging is associated with progressive psychological deficit, it seems important to consider such a deficit . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Houston

From the Gerontology Research Section, Texas Research Institute of Mental Sciences, and the Department of Psychiatry, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Sept 12, 1969.

Read in part before the annual meeting of the Gerontological Society, Denver, Nov 1, 1968.

Reprint requests to Department of Psychiatry, Baylor College of Medicine, 1200 Moursund Ave, Houston 77025 (Dr. Baer).

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