Care of the Elderly Disturbed Patient

Reprinted Before Publication: Plotting a Route for Sans Everything

“…The absence of reviews in both of these was surprising. Reasons for their absence could have been because the journals were not offered the book to review or it might relate to difficulties finding a reviewer, taking into account lack of interest of many geriatricians in the goings-on of mental hospitals (Denham 2004) and of many psychiatrists in undertaking clinical work with older people (Fine 1963). Some psychiatrists also objected to Barbara, as an outsider, interfering in service-related matters, and some geriatricians objected to the lack of mention in Sans Everything about good geriatric services that increasingly existed in general hospitals (Felstein 1969, pp.…”

Age inclusive services or separate old age and working age services? A historical analysis from the formative years of old age psychiatryc.1940–1989

“…A geriatrician noted that psychiatric hospitals were becoming ‘silted up’ with older mentally ill people, at least partly because psychiatrists ‘do not wish to treat’ them. 39 Tony Whitehead, an old age psychiatrist, commented that psychiatrists should stop ‘pretending that the old were not their concern’. 40 The logical course to avoid competing with younger people was to provide dedicated, resourced services.…”