Last Home for the Aged: Critical Implications of Institutionalization. By Sheldon S. Tobin and Morton A. Lieberman. San Francisco, Calif.: Jossey-Bass, 1976. 304 pp. $13.95

TL;DR: A multidimensional analysis of bereavement experienced by eighty-four adult children whose parents died following a stay in a long term care facility indicated that pre-death indicators of strain (length of stay, parent's cognitive status, child's feelings about parent living in a nursing home, depression) had varying levels of predictive power regarding the extent to which the child reported feeling sad, experiencing persistent thoughts about the parent, feeling a sense of comfort in memories about a parent, and feeling that the parent was a buffer to the child's mortality as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: Behaviour research, as compared to other psychological approaches, and the many ways it has positively improved quality of life issues for both the community dwelling elderly and those in long-term care settings are outlined.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the systemic potential for politico-administrative response in the area of social and health services in Latin American societies, and special emphasis is placed on the systemic capacity of politicoadministrative responses to the ageing of populations in these societies.

TL;DR: The results indicated that more referrals were made by social service workers than by physicians or relatives and a relatively large number of ccmmunity residents were self-referred.

TL;DR: A multidimensional analysis of bereavement experienced by eighty-four adult children whose parents died following a stay in a long term care facility indicated that pre-death indicators of strain (length of stay, parent's cognitive status, child's feelings about parent living in a nursing home, depression) had varying levels of predictive power regarding the extent to which the child reported feeling sad, experiencing persistent thoughts about the parent, feeling a sense of comfort in memories about a parent, and feeling that the parent was a buffer to the child's mortality as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the systemic potential for politico-administrative response in the area of social and health services in Latin American societies, and special emphasis is placed on the systemic capacity of politicoadministrative responses to the ageing of populations in these societies.

TL;DR: The aim of this review is to synthetise qualitative evidence in order to understand how decisions are made on the location of care of the elderly.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors conducted a study with 18 assisted living residents and 19 community dwelling older adults at three times on various aspects of adjustment, including physical and functional health, depression, life satisfaction, affect, and anxiety over a three month period following relocation.