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Discuss the 1963 Community Mental Health Act and in 1965 medicare and medicaid was established. How did this aid the elderly.
The community mental health act had been established for providing federal funding to the mental health centers as well as the research facilities. As a result of this act, there had been large desintitutionalisation. There was a joint commission established who’s repor in 1961 led to the concrete basis for this act in 1963, this act apcarried out establishment of the local centers of mental health. It aimed to create community based care centers, which became institutionalisation alternative. Patients, in these centers would be treated as they would live at home and work.
In the year 1965, social security act amendments were brought about. As a result of this act, Medicare had been established as the program of health insurance, which assisted the elderly as well as the poor people. As a result of this legislation, health insurance was being made affordable to a greater number of people. This was done by the Truman administration.