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The article highlights the efforts of U.S. government agencies in support adult protective services (APS) groups from 3rd to 4th quarters. Topics discussed include the National Center for Elder Abuse website imposed its fact sheet and flow chart for promoting programs and checking reports of abuse, negligence or exploitation, respectively, and the Administration for Community Living guidelines for a nationwide, united system for service and protection of affected adults

This article presents information about schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is now known to be a disease of the brain. The term schizophrenia was first used in 1911 by Eugen Bleuler, a Swiss psychiatrist, to categorize patients whose thought processes and emotional responses seemed disconnected. Psychotic symptoms, particularly delusions and hallucinations, are the most widely recognized manifestations of schizophrenia. Hallucinations are the experiences of seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, or feeling things that don't exist.

Schizophrenia is known to be a disease of the brain, just like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases. Schizophrenia is characterized by a cluster of symptoms that typically includes delusions, hallucinations, disordered thinking and emotional unresponsiveness. The disease is complicated by the fact that although a schizophrenic patient may have more than one symptom, he or she rarely has all of them. Symptoms also often go into remission. People with schizophrenia do poorly on mental tasks requiring conscious awareness, such as verbal fluency, short-term and working memory, and processing speed. No single cause can account for all cases of schizophrenia. Rather, it appears to be the result of multiple causes from genetic factors, environmental and psychological assaults, and possible hormonal changes that alter the brain's chemistry and trigger this devastating disease.