The Role of a Community Mental Health Center in Developing Services to the Aging The Older Adult Project

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The authors report on a multifaceted program for an aging population developed by an urban community mental health center (CMHC), in collaboration with a group of local clergymen and their churches. The project recruited and trained a cadre of older case aides, who then developed active outreach and casework services as foundations for meeting needs through crisis intervention, counseling, transportation, nutrition, and socialization. Data are presented summarizing the project's case load and service experience. It is the authors' thesis that CMHCs can amplify the new political power of the elderly with their own advocacy and significantly help to surmount the omnipresent bureaucratic, legislative, and funding barriers to essential services for the aging.

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