European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 29, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 a the stars and stripes Friday november 29, 1991 family Strain giving Rise to Granny dumping trend san Francisco apr one elderly woman was left sitting in a Hospital driveway As a car sped away. Another was wheeled into an emergency room with a note saying a please take care of her a pinned to her purse. Emergency room workers Call it a Granny dumping a a phenomenon that they said is becoming familiar across the country As families crumble under the Strain of caring for relatives who Are living longer than Ever. A a it a Tough a said or. Jack Allison president of the american College of emergency physicians. A a there a a systemic involvement Here a reflection of the health care system that leaves these patients  an informal Survey by the aces Drew 169 responses from emergency rooms across the country reporting an average of eight abandonment a week he said. The american association of retired persons which recently met in san Francisco addressed the matter in a recent Issue of its publication bulletin describing abandonment As a Small but a rapidly growing problem. Elderly abandonment seems to be most noticeable in Florida California and Texas which have Large retirement communities said or. Toni Mitchell director of Tampa general hospitals adult emergency department in Florida. Actual abandonment on the Doorstep of the emergency room a new twist on the baby on the Church Steps scenario is relatively rare. But it does happen. Recently the Tampa emergency room staff found a woman sitting in a wheelchair a note pinned to her that said a a she a sick. Please take care of  Mitchell by the los Angeles times a new study supports the belief that there is a higher incidence of suicide on mondays than other Days of the week mostly by Middle aged men. The nationwide study of suicide demographics a published in the november Issue of the american journal of Public health was based on information from 357,393 officially reported suicides from 1973 to 1985. While it supported some longtime beliefs about suicide it also debunked a few. For instance there Are. Fewer suicides than average Between thanksgiving and Christmas but the number on new year s eve and new years Day is the highest for any single Day of the year and mostly involve people in their 20s and 30s. Otherwise sociologists Richard Mccleary and Kenneth Chew of the University of California at Irvine found that generally there Arentt any seasonal patterns although there Are trends among specific age and gender groups. Not Only did male suicides outnumber female suicides three to one but men were More Likely to be affected by certain cycles. A a what a new and startling is How certain peaks can be determined a like on mondays or the fifth Day of each month a but Only among certain age groups and Washington up magic Johnson a decision to advocate abstinence Over Safe sex As a Way to avoid exposure to the aids virus reflects the View of a majority of americans a Survey reported wednesday. Published by the Gannett  Usa weekend the Telephone Survey of 2,013 adults around the country showed that 54 percent said they were troubled that promoting a Safe sex sends the message that society condones casual sex. Fifty six percent said they believe teen agers need to hear a stronger a no sex message than they hear now a the message Johnson earlier this week said he would stress. The Survey asked a does the Safe sex message trouble you because you think it might condone casual sex a fifty four percent said yes 43 percent said no and 3 percent said they did not know. When asked a do you think today a teen agers hear too much too Little or just enough about saying no to Calls these cases a the positive taillight sign. They Roll them in the door and All i see is the taillights vanishing in the  More commonly the elderly person is brought in by a landlord or transferred in from a nursing Home under pretext of illness. Then when the emergency room is ready to Send the patient Home there a suddenly no one m sight the boarding room is taken or the nursing Home place is gone. A we refer to it As the a packed suitcase syndrome a a Allison said. A when they show up with All of Granny a belongings in one or two suitcases and they say a put her in the Hospital and take care of her. We can to take care of her any  a one reason elderly abandonment seems to be More visible now is that overtaxed emergency rooms can no longer absorb the Strain of being an unofficial placement Center doctors said. About one third of respondents to the aces Survey rated the problem As a four or higher on a severity scale of one to six. The most common reason for abandonment they said was due to depletion of emotional not financial resources. Mitchell and Allison would like to see social service agencies providing More outpatient and in Home services to help families Cope with relatives. Experts advise families to take time for themselves perhaps through placing their elderly relatives in an adult Day care program. Some companies Are offering Multi generational Day care which mixes seniors with infants something that both sides seem to Benefit from said Jean Grun spokeswoman for the Levittown pa., group children of aging parents. Especially among males a Chew said. In 1990, 30,780 people in the United states attempted suicide up from 30,407 in 1988, according to the census Bureau. The researchers found wide demographic variations that they said Rule out another popular belief a the a Obi climatic theory that suicide peaks May be linked to weather and seasonal changes. A the arguments Are that in the summer the higher temperatures can Lead to More violent behaviour while the Winters can be unusually Bleak and depressing a Chew said. In their study Chew said they found a no such  although they did come across suicide peaks during those two seasons the phenomenon occurs in a surprising and specific manner suicide incidence for coys under 16 was unusually High in the Winter and Low in the summer while the reverse was found for men Over 80. A the teen age experience would make the More obvious sense since Winter would be a highly intense period in school and summer would be a less stressful school vacation time a said Mccleary noting that a similar drop in suicides for boys under 16 occurs in december during the school break. Sex a 56 percent said they hear too Little about abstinence. Nineteen percent said teens hear enough about abstinence but an equal percentage said they hear too much. Six percent responded that they a did no to  on monday Johnson the los Angeles lakers superstar who retired earlier this month after testing positive for his announced he had decided to alter his original message of promoting Safe sex in favor of advocating abstinence. A a magic a decision to change his message puts him More in line with a lot of americans a said Usa weekend editor Marcia Bullard. A your poll definitely shows a substantial number of people Are not comfortable with the moral implications of Safe sex a Bullard said. The poll was conducted nov. 15-24 by ice Survey research and had a margin of error of plus or minus 2.2 percentage  glory condom corp. To fight for trademark from wire reports Provincetown mass. A the old glory condom corp. Plans to fight the . Trademark offices refusal to Grant the firm a trademark for its name and logo the firms owner said wednesday. A a we re going to take it All the Way to the supreme court if we have to a said company founder Jay Critchley. The Federal Agency refused to Register the trademark saying the use of a logo featuring a Flag shaped like an unfurled condom would a a scandalized or Shock the conscience of a substantial composite of the general  Critchley a year old company Sells condoms in solid red White and Blue  killed woman new York a a woman died of injuries suffered in a beating not As a result of a car crashing into her ambulance the medical examiner said wednesday. The ruling Means Walter Davis 28, who shared an apartment with the woman and was her Sisters Boyfriend will be charged with murder. Davis and the Driver of the car had been held pending the autopsy. Joseph Soleo 25, of Edison n.j., who was going the wrong Way on a one Way Street was driving the car with a suspended License at the time of tuesdays crash authorities said.2nd disc jockey arrested Hollywood Fla. Police said wednesday a disc jockey from wow pm has been charged with sexual Battery of a 14-year-old boy the second on air personality from the radio station to be arrested in a week. Police said g. Michael Mckay Mckay 40, whose real name is Gary Hopfmann was arrested after the boy claimed he was Given marijuana and an unknown drug by Hopfmann before the two of them had sexual relations. Officials at wow pm could not be reached for comment. On nov. 19, police arrested disc jockey Bill Tanner and a 16-year-old youth living with him on drug charges. Tanner is charged with Possession of Ltd and cocaine cultivating marijuana Possession of marijuana and Possession of drug  filed after mix up Milwaukee a a family is entitled to seek damages for a mix up in which relatives found the wrong person in a casket just before the scheduled Public viewing of the body an appeals court has ruled. Tuesdays decision by judge Michael t. Sullivan of the 1st District court of appeals sends the Case Back to a lower court. The lawsuit seeking unspecified damages was filed by the survivors of Charles Holsen of Milwaukee who died aug. 25,1989. Jerome Kleczka president of the Prasser Kleczka funeral Home which has been named in the suit declined to  s sex Lover shot Jacksonville Fla. A an arrest warrant was issued for a Man wanted in the shooting of the Lover of the late entertainer Liberace. The victim Scott Thorson was listed in critical condition wednesday in a Jacksonville Hospital. Thorson also is known As Jess Marlow. Thorson 32, gained notoriety in 1982 when he filed a $12 million Alimony suit against Liberace who died in 1987 of an aids related illness. The suspect Melvin Jerome Owen 25, has a felony record dating Back to 1987. The record includes convictions for possessing and Selling crack cocaine. Witnesses identified Owen As the Man they saw running from a Howard Johnson a Motel after the nov. 20 shooting the warrant said. New study supports refutes some beliefs on suicide in . Safe sex message troubles americans