Group Treatment with Aged


 

Publication Date: January 1986

Publisher: Jewish Communal Service Association of North America

Author(s): Margaret Weiner

Research Area: Health; Social conditions

Keywords: American Jews; Health; Elderly

Type: Report

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

Therapy is not real life. At its best it is a metaphorical working-through of representations of real life and is a preparation for major change. So group therapy is not a substitute for missing relationships and defective social linkages in the lives of the aged. But group treatment does partially compensate for some gaping deficits in the lives of aged clients.