Attitudes toward Special Settings for the Aged

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This chapter focuses on attitudes toward special settings for the aged. There are many housing projects and communities that are especially suited to the older person’s living needs after retirement. The individual remains his own responsibility, at least as far as his daily activities are concerned. Although economic and other assistance may be forthcoming from the community, there is no agent on whom the older person may depend besides his friends, family, and himself. Attempts to define residential homes for the aged with precision have not met with unqualified success, but many have been made in conjunction with the establishment of licensing for these accommodations in various states of the United States. The decision to license must be based on criteria as tangible and objective as possible, and such criteria are less obvious than one first supposes. There are also institutions established to take care of the ill or disabled older person.

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