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Many mental institutions throughout the country have been turned into dumping grounds for thousands of oldsters who have no plac
Many mental institutions throughout the country have been turned into dumping grounds for thousands of oldsters who have no plac
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2013-02-16
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问题
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.
We may infer that the author______.
选项
A、is indifferent to the status quo of the hospitals
B、is sympathetic to the situation of the elderly
C、is optimistic towards the future of the elderly
D、is hostile towards the mental hospital staff
答案
B
解析
本题为细节推理题。根据文章最后一段可知,作者认为只要有足够的资源、服务和规划,老人们就可离开精神病院,安度晚年。然而,在现在这一冷漠的社会环境下,一切只是泡影。从文章可知,作者对老年人和精神病院的现状很关注,A和C选项与原文意思正好相反。此外,作者并未批判精神病院的工作人员,只是提及医院人员配备不足。因此,D选项不准确。B选项符合作者态度,因此,B选项正确。
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