A marked trend toward a higher average age of those admitted to homes for the aged was reported here this week in a study conducted by the Miami Jewish Home for the Aged. The study showed that whereas from 1945-1951, only 13 percent of those admitted to the Home were 75 years of age or more, today, 68 percent of the applications are from people 75 or over. From 1951 to the present, the 75-80 group, with 34 percent, had the largest number of admissions.
The report noted that “during the earlier period, the residents admitted were generally younger, heal their and ambulatory” while, in the later period, “they have been considerably older, sicker, more infirm and more incapacitated.”
The results of this survey, Irving Cypen, chairman of the Home’s finance committee, declared, “indicate the urgent need for non-institutional resources and services and programs so that as many of the senior citizens as possible may be helped to remain in the general community. There is a growing trend throughout the country of providing home care so that even the chronically ill or long-term patient may remain in his own home and not be institutionalized.”
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