title: [Family environment of the dependent elderly].
abstract: Dependency of an aged person, whatever its nature, places the subject in an infantile situation. The interaction of this new situation with the family background will create attitudes and dynamic forces that are apparently irrational and justify, as well as condition, the intervention of a third party. First steps in understanding what is observed can be made with reference to the pressure of the relationship which the patient implicitly exerts on his environment, and which seems to constitute the mainspring of the relationships and attitudes which progressively develop; these can feed a mechanism of increasing disability.
authors.affiliation: Université Lumière Lyon II, Bron.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Ploton
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003858:Dependency, Psychological; D005190:Family; D005852:Geriatric Psychiatry; D006801:Humans; D011368:Professional-Family Relations
vernacular_title: L'environnement familial du sujet âgé dépendant.