Research on the mental health of the aging, 1960-1976

목차 (Table of Contents)

• CONTENTS
• Foreword = ⅲ
• Overview = ⅴ
• Ⅰ. For the development of knowledge about human behavior and adjustment to aging in order to promote mental health.
• A. The effects of environmental conditions on the aging person.
• 1. Institutional residents :
• Social isolaction and adjustment in a home for the aged = 1
• Attitudinal changes with institutionalization = 2
• Reactions of aged prisoners to prison organizations = 2
• Roles of homes for aged in meeting communality needs = 3
• Aged patients and nursing home services = 3
• Intermediate hou­sing for the elderly = 4
• Forced relocation, setting, staff and patients effects = 5
• 2. Communality residents :
• Psychological field studies = 5
• Psychosocial factors in housing for the aged = 7
• Modes of retirement housing for the elderly = 7
• Social and medical services in housing for the aged = 7
• Housing needs and satisfactions of the elderly = 8
• B. The effects of retirement.
• Occupation retirement and family relationships = 8
• The problem of role adjustment of the retired = 9
• Social and psychological problems of aging = 10
• Personal autonomy and the social processes of aging = 10
• Retirement patterns and related predictive variables = 11
• A pilot study of retired scientists = 12
• Scientists in retirement = 12
• C. Psychosocial studies of adjustment to aging.
• l. Middle aged :
• Factors related to mental hearth in middle­aged women = 13
• Age norms and socialization in adulthood = 13
• Psychological change and adaptation in middle age = 14
• A psychosocial study of the male mid­―life decade = 14
• 2. Cultural and race studies :
• Field research in anthropsychoanalytic techniques = 15
• A cross­cultural study of the aged = 15
• Cross­cultural acceptance of stereotypes about aging = 16
• A psychological study of older Navaho men = 17
• A study of racial attitude change in older adults = 18
• Effects of racial violence on interracial prejudice = 18
• Leisure and mental health : cultural and age factors = 19
• Roles and resources of older urban negroes = 20
• 3. Roles and generational differences :
• The adaptive tasks of aging : a psychosocial analysis = 20
• Beliefs and opinions about the age groups = 21
• Aging in Appalachia = 21
• Generational differences : correlates and consequences = 22
• Grandparental role conceptions = 22
• 4. Effects of earlier life experiences :
• Correlates of anxiety in older persons = 23
• Late results of excessive long­lasting stress = 24
• Pediatric correlates of geriatric adjustment = 24
• 5. Other psychosocial studies :
• Demonstrated human abilities at upper age limits = 24
• Differentiating institutionalized from ambulant aging = 25
• Marriage of older persons = 25
• Disaffiliation among urban women = 26
• Aging and attitude expression = 26
• Sexual adjustment of the chronically ill and disabled = 27
• D. Studies of the terminal stage of life.
• Attitudes toward death of terminally ill persons = 28
• A training program for work with：the aged and dying = 28
• Guardians of the suicidal and terminally ill = 29
• The dying and the bereaved : a cross­ethnic evaluation = 29
• E. Longitudinal studies.
• Biological mechanisms in behavior = 30
• Effects of aging upon the central nervous system, and an integrated interdisciplinary research approach to aging = 30
• The brain and the outcome of normal senescence = 31
• Ten year followup of human aging project = 32
• Psychological study of 40 scientists : followup #2 = 32
• F. Studies of sleep and dreaming.
• The psychophysiology of sleep and dreaming = 33
• Psychology and physiology of sleep = 33
• Sleep and sleep disturbances = 34
• Sleep patterns in mental illness = 35
• G. Studies of memory.
• Affects , physiological changes and humoral levels = 35
• Studies of factors which affect intelligence = 36
• Drugs in memory improvement in normal aging = 37
• Retention in and retrieval from immediate memory = 37
• H. Studies of time perspective by aging.
• Cognitive processes in aging = 38
• Behavior and cognition in the aged = 38
• Experimental induction of old behavior = 39
• I. Visual perception.
• Analytic studies of visual perception = 39
• Temporal factors in visual perception related to aging = 40
• Relation of subject age to perceptual interaction = 41
• J. Other studies to promote mental health of the aging.
• Research in the social history of mental illness = 41
• History of prolongevity hypotheses = 42
• Functional decline with advancing age = 43
• Effects of procaine = 43
• Psychological determinants of organic disease = 44
• Drug studies in normal females and senior citizens = 45
• Tissue­specific DNA histone = 45
• Factors in autonomic conditionability = 46
• A biochemical key to mental aging = 47
• Ⅱ. Studies of services on the development of services to promote mental health.
• A. Services to use and integrate community resources.
• Development and tryout of an interview form on aging = 47
• Integrated community program services to the aged = 48
• Senior advisory service for public housing tenants = 48
• Social work team with aging family service clients = 49
• B. Aging persons as volunteers.
• Retraining older adults for employment in Community service = 49
• Mobilization of aging resources for community service = 50
• Utilization of human resources for mental health = 51
• C. Utilization of group activities.
• Participants in a senior citizens day center program = 51
• Adjustment to role change in aged users of programs = 52
• Aging and the use of community resources = 53
• D. Utilization of workshops.
• The therapeutic workshop for older persons = 53
• A workshop program in an institution for the aged = 54
• Ⅲ. Studies to develop knowledge to understand, treat and rehabilitate the mentally impaired aged.
• A. On diagnosis of and factors in the mental impairment of aged persons.
• Psychological abilities scale for seniles = 55
• Diagnostic test for brain damage = 55
• The influence of aging on pre­existing psychoses = 56
• Study of elderly admissions to a private mental hospital = 57
• Neuropathology in mental illness and deficiency = 58
• Studies in geriatric mental illness = 58
• Diagnosis of mental disorders in the U.S. and U.K. = 59
• The biochemistry of senile dementia = 59
• Treatment and prevention of mental impairment of aged = 60
• Vitamin Bl2 deficiency in aging psychiatric patients = 60
• B. Developing means of care other than hospitalization for aged persons.
• Discharge planning and followup services for the mentally ill = 61
• Determination of need for psychiatric hospitalization for geriatric patients = 61
• Potential social habilitation of elderly patients = 62
• The use of volunteers in a county mental health project = 63
• Comprehensive care of suspected mentally ill aged = 64
• Study of mental patients in nursing homes = 64
• Mental hospital versus sheltered living for the aged = 65
• C. Other studies concerting mental impairment in the aged.
• State­supported geriatric unit in a community center = 66
• Clinical studies of psychoactive drugs in the aged = 66
• The institutional milieu of the senile patient = 67
• Architecture and behavior : the mentally impaired aged = 67
• Ⅳ. Studies of developments of services to impede mental impairment in aged persons.
• A. In community for mentally impaired aged.
• A coordinated approach to protective services to the aged = 68
• Psychiatric service utilization pre and post Medicare = 68
• Guardianship and protective services for older people = 69
• Cumulative register of community psychiatric services = 69
• B. Mentally impaired aged living in institutions.
• Deaf services integrated in State mental hospitals = 70
• Milieu treatment of older mental patients = 71
• Workshop for mentally impaired institutionalized aged = 71
• Individualized treatment of mentally impaired aged = 72