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Author(s) -
John Witton,
Jean O',
Reilly San,
Francisco Voters
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
addiction
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.424
H-Index - 193
eISSN - 1360-0443
pISSN - 0965-2140
DOI - 10.1111/add.14290
Subject(s) - psychology , medicine
reports 34 deaths from suicide, compared with 21 in 1960. 14 were due to carbon monoxide poisoning, 15 to self-inflicted violence and 5 to barbiturate poisoning. Tn writing of the care of the elderly and the aged, 'the Report comments: 'An increasing amount of the health visitors' time is taken up with visiting these cases to ascertain their needs, and call upon any service that may be required. This may be of urgent admission to hospital, or the provision of a district nurse, or home help. Many of the old people live alone and are house-bound so that loneliness becomes one of their biggest problems. Family responsibility towards the needs of tb6; ^ elderly relatives tends to be very lax 1 v some cases. There are some old peop c who may be visited by their sons ^ daughters only once or twice a y&[" The helpful neighbours of the past j not, in these days, so ready to acc^f ^ the responsibility of seeing to the ne^ < of these people. More and more is W j to the Welfare State'.