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The elderly of Baka, a Jerusalem neighborhood, receive strong, family-oriented informal support with minimal participation by non-kin, as has been found in similar Israeli studies. Comparable foreign studies report similar family-oriented patterns of support, but together with substantial assistance from non-kin. The neighborhood's emphatically family-based informal support system suggests fruitful possibilities for its use as a complement to formal services and as an alternative to institutionalization.
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Fleishman et al. (1984) studied this question.
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