Is uncle Sen insane? Pride, humor, and clique formation in a Northern Thai home for the elderly.
Called a flirt, rascal, buffoon, and disgrace, Uncle Sen created considerable confusion among staff and patients at Chiangmai city's only home for the elderly. Whether to label him insane or not loomed as an issue that divided his aged peers into two cliques. Behind these reactions are isolated two adaptive styles of the Northern Thai elderly to a rapidly changing traditional social system.
D000368:Aged; D001290:Attitude; D003704:Dementia / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006707:Homes for the Aged; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008019:Life Style; D008297:Male; D010379:Peer Group; D012380:Role; D012945:Social Values; D013785:Thailand; D014925:Wit and Humor as Topic