title: Hospital leads way in community approach to caring for elderly.
abstract: Putnam Memorial Hospital, Bennington, VT, took an active leadership role in organizing the Bennington Elderly Action Committee as a means of identifying the problems of the elderly and of achieving solutions to these problems.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D003255:Consumer Organizations / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006299:Health Services for the Aged; D006744:Hospital Bed Capacity, 100 to 299; D006764:Hospitals, Community / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D007857:Leadership; D014707:Vermont