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THE LONG‐STAY PSYCHOGERIATRIC NEEDS OF A SUBURBAN COMMUNITY
Author(s) -
Dax E. Cunningham,
Morrison Garry
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
australian journal on ageing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.63
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1741-6612
pISSN - 0726-4240
DOI - 10.1111/j.1741-6612.1986.tb00289.x
Subject(s) - government (linguistics) , nursing homes , mental health , nursing , community service , long term care , ordination , residential care , medicine , gerontology , psychology , psychiatry , political science , public relations , philosophy , linguistics , machine learning , computer science
A survey was made of the number of people in the Western Sourbs of Melbourne who needed long‐stay psychogeriatric care. The Directors' of Nursing Homes estimated that about 10% of their patients were in this category, whilst another 50 were in the Mental Health Department Hospitals and some 80 others were known in the Community or Hostels. With better Government organisation and co‐ordination, with expanded community services, improved nursing home design and utilisation, educational expansion and research much long‐term psychogeriatric care could be avoided. Problems faced by the various services have been reviewed together with their attempts to overcome their difficulties.