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The Psychogeriatric Problem
Author(s) -
Ehrlich Fred
Publication year - 1972
Publication title -
australian journal of social issues
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.417
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1839-4655
pISSN - 0157-6321
DOI - 10.1002/j.1839-4655.1972.tb00482.x
Subject(s) - project commissioning , feature (linguistics) , population , publishing , psychology , sociology , psychiatry , social psychology , political science , demography , philosophy , law , linguistics
The nature and the origin of the psychogeriatric problem are described as a consequence of interactions of psychological, organic and social forces. The changing social role of the aged, accompanied by downward social mobility, is a feature seen as significant. The resulting difficulties experienced by an increasing proportion of the population are seen as being mainly in the form of dependence which is treated by rejection. No solutions are proposed in this paper.