Children's EFT scores for 604 aged persons in five samples—two homes for the aged, dischargees from a rehabilitation hospital, members of dischargees' households, and members of a senior center—were analyzed by age and sex. Older age groups had lower embedded-figures scores than younger; institutionalized persons had lower scores than non-institutionalized; scores of women were as high or higher than those of men.
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