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Many mental institutions throughout the country have been turned into dumpin
Many mental institutions throughout the country have been turned into dumpin
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2025-04-20
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Many mental institutions throughout the country have been turned into dumping grounds for thousands of oldsters who have no place else to go. Most of them aren’t really mentally ill. In the jargon of the hospital bureaucracy, they are classified as "inappropriate admissions." But since society has nothing better to offer, they are left to rot without hope, help, or dignity. The usual exit is death.
Often through no fault of their own, understaffed and overcrowded mental hospitals handle their "geriatric cases" little better than cattle. There is a recurrent pattern of elderly patients locked into wards to prevent them from wandering about, given steady doses of tranquilizers to keep them "manageable", left day and night without a trace of human warmth or companionship.
Some hospitals have wards full of elderly, tranquilized patients, bodies bloated from their inactive, meaningless existences, sitting listlessly on hard benches or sprawled asleep on the floor. There are women, silent as statues, occupying chairs and rockers in the corridors. While the weather may be beautiful outdoors, old men may indifferently shuffle about a geriatric "cottage" with nowhere to go and nothing to do.
Yet many of the people could be restored to human dignity, not by complicated therapeutic procedures, but among other things, by providing good medical care and reaching out a hand of kindness towards them.
It is estimated that one half the old people in state mental hospitals today could leave if proper community resources, services and programs were available. But an indifferent society has not made them available. [br] The main idea of this passage is that______.
选项
A、most old people need family care
B、good care for the elderly is costly
C、many old people are living out their last years in mental institutions
D、old people should be taken out of doors when the weather is pleasant
答案
C
解析
本题为主旨分析题。综合全文可知,作者认为在一个人情冷漠的社会,年老的人被扔进了精神病院等机构自生自灭,老人们得不到应有的照顾和关爱,死亡是唯一出路。C选项符合这一中心思想。文中提出老人需要全社会的关爱,没有强调家庭关爱,A选项不准确。B选项文中并未提及。D选项为文中细节,但是与原文意思正好相反。因此,C选项正确。
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