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While examples of the geographical maladministration of such social services as mental health facilities & economic production & distribution abound, geography has yet to be accepted as a discipline offering systematic input to policy decisions. Both within states & internationally there are no geographical institutes whose purpose would be to measure the economic & social components of geography. Geographers have failed to gain acceptance because: (1) geography tends to be an introverted subject, (2) physical geography has been academically stronger than human geography, & (3) the early history of the discipline has stigmatized contemporary studies by virtue of its physical determinism. Insofar as measurement is an essential link between theory & practice, geographical institutes should be established to facilitate measurement in such areas as economic geography, eg changes in wages & salaries, distribution of investment income, distribution of F income, & the geography of health & educational services. Failing these sort of data, maladministration is a necessary feature of policy formulation & implementation. 10 Figures. F. Hydoski.

I hope to retain my independence for as long as possible. This may mean that I have to paym for help, but I do not expect itfrom you or your partners ... If I reach a point when I cannot live independently I do not expect any of you 10 provide me with a home. I hope and plan to make arrangements with some of my friends to live together in some sort of sheltered accommodation but, failing that, I will have to find the most acceptable place I can and if it uses all my savings - well, they are my savings. If, by then, I am unable to make decision.l' for myself; you mayhave to jointly find the best place for me but none of you should feel guilty about not laking the burden. I do nOI want you to do so - whatever I might be saying at the time. (Growing Old Disgracefully, p.179)