Old Age: The Completion of a Life Cycle

Rudd, T. N.

doi:10.1111/j.1532-5415.1958.tb00680.x

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Prevention Of Mental Illness In the Aged1

The Individual Value Of Old Age1

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“…And, he adds, "There is no reason to believe that it can be otherwise in the matter of old-age care." 19 We who are in the field must con tinue developing our programs, improv ing them, refining them. We must con duct research to amass more knowledge.…”

Section: Prevention Of Mental Illness In the Agedmentioning

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Adapting urban mental health services to our aging population.

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1964

American Journal of Orthopsychiatry

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Not only do national population trends mean more older people in American cities, but older people tend to move to cities from outlying areas. Probably those most likely to need medical care are most likely to move. The increasing number of older people will require a revolution in our organization to provide care. Urban mental health services must be made a part of total medical care and brought to the patient wherever he is, especially in the home. Keeping the patient's home intact is a major factor in maintaining both his mental and physical health.

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Section: Prevention Of Mental Illness In the Agedmentioning

confidence: 99%

Adapting urban mental health services to our aging population.

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1964

American Journal of Orthopsychiatry

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“…Its prime value is for the individual. Old age is a stage of life as essential for the maturing of the personality as adolescence or middle‐age; without it, the life‐cycle cannot be considered complete (Rudd (5)). If we look on old age as a normal stage in life, we can postulate for it the characteristics which mark other life‐stages, i.e.…”

Section: The Individual Value Of Old Agementioning

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Security in Old Age: Its Philosophical Basis

Rudd

1960

J American Geriatrics Society

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“…Yet in spite of our modern tendency to regard old age as a useless appendix to a working life, old age is a normal stage in the life cycle, holding a place as valid as childhood, adolescence and maturity (Rudd, 1958). It is, in a sense, a necessary completion of the life‐cycle, without which the personality may not fully mature.…”

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