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Extramural Psychiatric Care and the Elderly

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

J. Hoenig  and
Marian W. Hamilton
J. Hoenig
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Manchester University
Marian W. Hamilton
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Manchester University
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To keep psychiatric patients as much as possible in the community rather than have them admitted to mental hospital is a policy which has become more and more favoured and has been shown to work (Leyberg, 1959; Silverman, 1961; Sainsbury et al., 1963 and Hoenig et al., 1965, etc.). This type of management cannot be expected to be equally successful with all groups of patients and is perhaps most open to question as regards the illnesses that affect the elderly.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 113 , Issue 497 , April 1967 , pp. 435 - 443
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1967 

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