European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 23, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                January 1978 the stars and stripes Page 19 modern living by Richard Flaste new York Tomci they Are being called the Invulnerable children despite the most stressful Urey dont break in they even though their parents May be even though Urey May live in poverty or have suffered profound bereavement and the do Well in take on roles of succeed where they would have been expected to these children have begun to attract widespread attention almost by the researchers who Are investigating them started out to study children at the children who seem most Likely to have their lives damaged by terrible Cir but As these studies and there Are Many across the frequently with government support looked at the children of parents going through All sorts of problem ranging trim severe marital discord to Schizo an inescapable byproduct o he research began to most said Cynthia a psychologist at Washington do better than youd expect they May not be the happiest people in the but they turn out More or less beyond those there is a group that a National Institute of mental health official likes to Call the not Only do they do Fine but they James a psychiatrist at Washington tells of one youngster who was part of one of the most Dis Organ relentlessly pressuring situations Ive Ever the father was a chronic alcoholic one of the mean a fighting and he beat up the Mother and the children and destroyed the furniture and was impossible Day after the Mother was a masochist who accepted All this As part of this couple had three the two younger Anthony were the Saddest children they completely Suc but the oldest defying any reasonable seemed to go from strength to he proved compe tent in Many especially at he seemed poised and at the University of Norman who has been one of the main forces behind the investigation of Invulnerable suggests that the Lack of knowledge about now a child overcomes such enormous stress indicates consider Able neglect in the mental health a Field he has studied illness More than Garmezy is one of those who feels that a psychologist cant Tell Why one child Breaks Down nor figure out How to prevent that breakdown until something Concrete is known about Why other children do not breakdown under similar stressful the reasons offered for the resilience of some children Are often they seem obvious innate prob Lem solving strengths of the substitute parents outs Lee the but Garmezy we really dont know its All speculation that usually comes in Retros if a child succeeds with the help of a supportive then the adult is credited As the Garmezy if the child goes Down the then the Environ ment is the explanations strike him As simplistic and not very he and researchers like him maintain that its their Job to find out what makes some children apparently Invulnerable so that others who Arent so resilient can be the researchers Are careful to say that they Are trying to avoid giving Comfort to those who maintain that everybody should make it on his like soands and they dont want to leave the impression that there is any special Joy in in Anthony believes that the Invulnerable children May not be so after they May be paying a Price that is not yet fully in he likens the experiences of some of these youngsters to those of children whole gone through such As the bombing of Hiroshima or any other Catas following he youll find a group of children who have this extraordinary but the feeling one gets is that Treyve placed a psychological distance Between themselves and the that he May carry Over into interpersonal relationships and make it difficult to Ever really be even Given what Treyve gone an Thony Calls them these splendid Chil and he illustrates what they Are like with a Story of three dolls one is made of the second of Plas tic and the third of they Are each hit the first the second is but the third gives off a metallic its that Anthony that were All trying to a care centers for the elderly by Sharon Johnson new York times for daycare centers i the United states have provided recreation for millions of children and respite for their parents now More and More centers Are being established across the country to meet the daycare of the elderly and their one of the first such centers is pal Crest in suburban Long 2s Miles South of los Many older people face involuntary said Nancy Palm rests they sit at borne Watchung or stare aut the wait ing for their families to return from Many of them Retreat to a fantasy because their daily lives Are Junful Knapp sees Dayare centers As Middle ground be tween nursing Homes and senior citizen the elderly who use them Are neither so feeble that they require Roundt Hemlock supervision nor so Spry that they Are completely self sufficient a to pal Ronat monday through with its Chrome Bright Orange and abstract the Center for the aged looks More like a College its activities arts and crafts and discussions about current those with special such As victims of strokes who want to learn to write work individually with a physical for pal Crest is a to feat to for an Yea old Man who Tram Parkinson disease lived with to is Tewold who left him la the Caneta ses while the led lewd him to take naps and forbade him to leave the apart meet be they it would be daa Trau for him to be their patient became bitter and after dismiss ing several the daughter turned to where her father found the Freedom he the pal Crest staff fed him Only when his trembling became so intense that he could not Tgu he became Happy and outgoing once he had found new Day care for the elderly is not a new one of the first daycare centers for the aged was established by Harry a consultant for the new York City department of welfare in the Early said Richard Palm rests about elderly people attended initially but after six Only a handful were still the big problem then and he went is that the elderly do not attend regularly so that the centers Are Lea with expensive facilities standing sometimes the aged dont come because they Are too tired or because their families cannot bring some times they stay Home simply because they dont like to leave their Homes during bad despite Access the pal Crest staff does net believe that daycare centers Are a Panacea for All the problems of the because of the publicity about the abuses of nursing Homes a few years said Julian Palm crests critics have argued that millions of elderly people now to nursing Homes and hospitals could be released if there were enough daycare centers to care for i dont think daycare centers will Ever be an alternative to nursing Homes because they Are not along with the others of private daycare centers for Feingold and his wife have found that the Cost w of providing Day care far exceeds the ability of the aged to the aged at pal Crest pay 1 to a Day for nine hours of activities and a few have been admitted the which has never sought Public re ports that it lost in its first it has sur Vived because it is not an individual entity but part of the pal Crest retirement Home and convalescent whose 200 liven residents share the movie the the work of the staff and the facilities of Palm Crest with those who use the daycare it Means a lot to be to have some place to go and something to said a Grey haired woman who was relaxing on the Patio of the daycare Center has made me feel like a human being