FACTORS IN SELECTION OF PSYCHIATRIC TREATMENT FOR INSTITUTIONALIZED AGED PERSONS
ROBERT L. KAHN PH.D.,
ALVIN I. GOLDFARB M.D.,
MAX POLLACK PH.D., , and
ARTHUR PECK M.D.1
1 The Office of the Consultant on Services for the Aged, New York State Department of Mental Hygiene, Queens Village, N. Y., and the Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews of New York.
The selection of aged patients for psychotherapy appears to follow the same sociopsychological trends as in younger persons. This manner of selection may tend to weed out the most helpless, anxious and most psychotherapeutically malleable candidates for psychiatric care.
