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In order to test the hypothesis that retirement would be particularly stressful for this highly motivated cohort, forty retired members of Israeli kibbutzim (22 men, 18 women) were interviewed in an open—ended fashion, concerning their early history, their decision to join the kibbutz, their working life, and their post-retirement adaptation. Little evidence of significant psychopathology was found, and those instances were for the most part traceable to traumatic rearing in the family of orientation, rather than to current, post-retirement losses and insults. These findings are discussed in terms of the Habitat-Niche model developed by Gutmann.

A case of an elderly man who developed severe hyponatremia and bone marrow granulomatosis while taking methyldopa is described. The hyponatremia was found to be due to the syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion (SIADH). Bone marrow biopsy revealed granulomas. A MEDLINE search of the English literature was done, yielding only one previous report of methyldopa-induced bone marrow granulomatosis and no previous reports of methyldopa-induced SIADH.