There is, however, a special need for some social engineering which can initiate Boarding Homes for the Elderly.

Many of these are still strong and well, but need special consideration in particular ways.

Many others are not ill, but delicate, and in need not of full-time nursing care but of occasional good offices of trained helpers.

One nurse, a "practical nurse" or a trained nurse past in age and strength full service of her profession, could easily give occasional service needed for twenty or more elderly persons in usual health or for ten or more aged, in greater need of care but not helpless, if all were under the same roof.

The cooeperative plans that often fail in serving the family of father, mother, and children, may be found exactly suited to special classes, and among them the aged.