Helping Older People Who Have Been in Mental Hospitals

1313 E. 60th Street, Chicago 37, Illinois. 30 cents. Although based on American experience, this brief pamphlet should be of interest to all workers concerned about the increasing number of senile patients in our mental hospitals. It is a report on the provision of specialized boarding home care for patients from the state hospitals of North Carolina, many "having been admitted there when mental illness was regarded as incurable and admission to a mental institution is the final step in his life." Homes were found for some patients who had been hospitalized for 40 years, and nearly 500 persons have been cared for in this manner in the three years the plan has been in operation. The report would have been helped by a few more case illustrations, but nevertheless it is