You better mind yer parents, an' yer teachers fond and dear, An' churish them 'at loves you, ali dry the orphant's tear, An' help the pore an' needy ones 'at clusters all about, Er the Gobble-uns'll git you Ef you Don't Watch Out!

Erickson (1963) terms, "the end stage of life," through the lens of humor. These issues include: identity, self-esteem, heritage and culture, mortality, loss, and self-worth.

The growth of self-help groups relating to health and mental health agencies has been a significant phenomenon of the past decade. Self-help groups offer important benefits to their members as they provide a structure for mutual aid and support and a forum for social/legislative action around a felt social problem. As therapeutic and physical extenders of services they are of significance to professional providers. This paper provides a framework for the professional social worker to view the self-help phenomenon, presents a typology of self-help groups relating to health care agencies, and describes the role of social work in several self-help groups.

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The social work role in discharge planning must include an advocacy function. This is important to facilitate discharge planning and can be carried out in three related areas: (1) political advocacy--to improve governmental programs, (2) resource development advocacy--to meet unmet needs; and (3) case advocacy--to ensure that programs are accessible and appropriate for eligible patients and families. This role is particularly suited for social workers because of their training and experience and should be included as part of their contribution to comprehensive health care.

report to the World Health Organization on "Rehabilitation in I" Psychiatry" throughout the world, Dr. Maxwell Jones describes rehabilitation as "the attempt to provide the best possible community role which will enable the patient to achieve the maximum range of activities, compaL ible with his personality and interests, and of which he is capable" (2, p: 4). Whether one subscribes to this broad definition of the term or describes it in a somewhat more confined manner as "the third phase of treatment," as is done by Dr. Howard Rusk and his associates, it is obvious that rehabilitation of the mentally ill requires a complex of psychiatric and social science approaches. This paper is the report of a pilot project which combines psychiatric, social welfare and industrial elements in serving patients discharged from a mental hospital.Hillside Hospital. Early in 1953, the Hillside Hospital approached the Altro Health and Rehabilitation Services as to the possibility of its accepting mental patients for rehabilitation a t Altro Work Shops.'Hillside Hospital is a voluntary, philanthropic mental hospital which was founded in 1927 for the treatment of ambulatory patients suffering from the functional mental disorders. The patients are about equally divided diagnostically into the psychoneurotic, borderline and early schizophrenic, manicdepressive and involutional groups. They are selected on the basis of having some degree of awareness of the emotional nature of their problems, and their willingness and ability to participate in a psychotherapy-centered program within the confines of a mental hospital. The treatment program is built around individual psychotherapy where patients are seen three or more times week1y;'and they also receive occupational, group and other activity therapy.

Older Americans who have lived through several national tragedies have been found to experience a variety of reactions to 9/11. While several studies have examined the symptomatology of seniors, the authors examined some of their reactions to 9/11 and derived several practice guidelines to assist healthcare professions working with the elderly around issues of trauma.

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