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Status of Patients in an Inner City Nursing Home: Implications for Psychiatric Consultation
Author(s) -
YUDIN LEE W.,
DIAMOND HERBERT,
TUCKER KAREN
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
journal of the american geriatrics society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.992
H-Index - 232
eISSN - 1532-5415
pISSN - 0002-8614
DOI - 10.1111/j.1532-5415.1973.tb01703.x
Subject(s) - medicine , nursing homes , dementia , remedial education , inner city , psychiatry , nursing , psychiatric ward , family medicine , disease , economic geography , pathology , political science , law , economics
The residents of an inner city nursing home were studied to ascertain the status of psychiatric consultation and rehabilitative programs. Most of the patients had psychoses associated with organic brain syndromes or senile dementia. The Home was as well run as most such institutions but the record‐keeping was so poor that formal evaluation of the patients was almost impossible. It was clear, however, that there was a great need for continuing psychiatric consultation and the development of appropriate remedial programs that reach beyond custodial care.