Psychiatric patients who remain in long stay hospitals

Despite the move towards care in the community there remain in our psychiatric hospitals long stay patients who have yet to be found places in the community. Below is reported a study in which the impact of shrinking psychiatric hospitals upon these long stay patients was assessed. In terms of psych...

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Published inJournal of mental health (Abingdon, England) Vol. 4; no. 5; pp. 519 - 530
Main Author GEERTSHUIS, SUSAN A
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London Informa UK Ltd 01.12.1995
Taylor & Francis
Informa Healthcare
Subjects
Biological and medical sciences
Deinstitutionalization
Institution therapy. Inpatient treatment
Long stay
Medical sciences
Mental Hospitals
Mental Patients
Patients
Psychiatric hospitals
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Quality of Life
Treatments
Wales
Human
Psychiatric hospital
Symptomatology
Chronic
Mental disorder
Adult
Hospitalization
Autonomy
Psychological effect
Long term
Elderly
Quality of life
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Summary:Despite the move towards care in the community there remain in our psychiatric hospitals long stay patients who have yet to be found places in the community. Below is reported a study in which the impact of shrinking psychiatric hospitals upon these long stay patients was assessed. In terms of psychiatric state and quality of life these patients have declined over the two years since large scale hospital discharge programmes began. Furthermore, the hospital 'stayers' are showing increasingly pessimistic attitudes towards their eventual life in the community. This can only add to the difficulty with which these patients will eventually be integrated into the community.
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ISSN:0963-8237
1360-0567
DOI:10.1080/09638239550037352