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The British Journal of Psychiatry (1966) 112: 589-594. doi: 10.1192/bjp.112.487.589
© 1966 The Royal College of Psychiatrists
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Geriatric Admissions to a Mental Hospital

E. HERBERT M.B., B.Ch., D.P.H.1 and S. JACOBSON M.Sc., M.B., M.R.C.P.E., M.R.C.P., D.P.M.2

1 Senior Hospital Medical Officer, St. Francis Hospital, Haywards Heath, Sussex
2 Consultant Psychiatrist, St. Francis Hospital, Haywards Heath, Sussex

A review of one year's geriatric admissions to a mental hospital in a catchment area with a relatively high percentage of geriatric people is presented. The geriatric admission rate increases as more elderly patients accept mental hospital admission and as the medical practititioners and local authorities use the mental hospital. Married men and widowed women form the predominant admissions. On the whole, admission carries a favourable prognosis because of the high incidence of depression. There is a high incidence of physical disease in this series requiring nursing and medical care. Emphasis is laid upon the need for close liaison with other departments of medicine. The geriatric patient is very liable to re-admission, and the local authority welfare services, including domiciliary services, are essential for follow-up care, and to ascertain the existence of mental illness needing psychiatric and medical care.

Submitted on August 2, 1965




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