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Peer reviewedKnight, Bob; Walker, Deborah Lower – Gerontologist, 1985
Offers proposed definitions of "frail elderly" and "range of institutional care", and argues that an active problem-solving, treatment-oriented approach can reduce unnecessary institutionalization and that the movement to deinstitutionalize the elderly can learn from the history of the deinstitutionalization of other groups.…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Community Health Services, Deinstitutionalization (of Disabled), Gerontology
