Abstract
Clinical experience indicates an especially important role for support systems in a bio-psychosocial approach to understanding the development of mental illness in elderly persons and the provision of appropriate services for them. Family, work, and community supports are reviewed. The authors believe optimistically that the present traditional supports are not worse than those of the past and that new models exist for future use. In addition, the anticipated increased numbers of elderly make it important that clinicians be well informed and plan multifaceted responses and that community mental health centers, as service and support systems actually in place in many underserved areas, take advantage of multiple available funding streams to increase substantially their assistance for the elderly.
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