The Cerebral Arteriosclerotic Psychotic and Social Influences: A Study Conducted at Greystone Park Hospital, Morris Plains, New Jersey, October, 1957, Designed to Trace Associations Between the Severity of Symptoms in Seventy Hospitalized Patients and Civil condition at Time of Admission, the Number of Visits Received per Month, Race, and Nativity
Abstract
Background of the Study. Society is becoming increasingly aware of the multiple and complex problems associated with our growing aged population. The statement that our advancing medical technology has contributed to the growing proportion of the aged in our country has become a truism in studies and periodicals. The following statistical reference illustrates the decline of the death rate among our population, sixty-five years of age and older. It is interesting to note that the death rate decline gradually increases through each age group from lowest to highest with the exception of the eighty-five plus group and here the decline is but a slight one of 2.4%. The year 1933 was selected for comparison since it was the first year that complete statistics on the total population over sixty-five were available. The incomplete figures for the year 1920, giving a thirty-year comparison, show the same trend.
Subject Area
Clinical psychology|Health care management|Social work|Aging
Recommended Citation
Foy, Edward Joseph, "The Cerebral Arteriosclerotic Psychotic and Social Influences: A Study Conducted at Greystone Park Hospital, Morris Plains, New Jersey, October, 1957, Designed to Trace Associations Between the Severity of Symptoms in Seventy Hospitalized Patients and Civil condition at Time of Admission, the Number of Visits Received per Month, Race, and Nativity" (1958). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI30557608.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI30557608
