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Care of “new” long‐stay patients in a District General Hospital Psychiatric Unit The first two years of a hospital‐hostel
Author(s) -
Gibbons J. S.
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
acta psychiatrica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.849
H-Index - 146
eISSN - 1600-0447
pISSN - 0001-690X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0447.1986.tb02728.x
Subject(s) - unit (ring theory) , general hospital , medicine , psychiatry , psychiatric hospital , nursing , family medicine , psychology , mathematics education
— The paper describes the need for long‐term inpatient care in an English health district whose psychiatric services were based on a unit in a District General Hospital. Patients who became long‐stay were placed in a new hospital‐hostel in a city centre. Three quarters of those eligible could be managed in the hostel, with those rejected posing more control problems. Patients in the hostel became less withdrawn and increased their activity and use of community facilities.