Abstract

THE Minister of Health recently said that the problems of the aged should be a challenge to the public conscience. Improvements in medicine had added years to life, and he believed that the aim should now be to add life to those years.For many elderly persons the provision of suitable living accommodation presents the major problem. The census of 1951 showed that the number living entirely alone is increasing steadily and that most of such one-person households are feminine. In 1951, 3 of every 10 spinsters and widows over the age of sixty lived alone. Many other maiden aunts . . .

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