1991
DOI: 10.1192/pb.15.6.321
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‘Elderly graduates’ and a hospital closure programme: the experience of the Camberwell Resettlement Team

Abstract: The closure of Britain's large psychiatric hospitals, long foreseen, is now rapidly becoming a reality. Surprisingly little is known about the process and outcome of the relocation of long-stay hospital residents. One area of particular concern is the fate of ‘elderly graduate’ patients, who are by convention defined as long-stay patients aged over 65 years who came into continuous psychiatric contact before the age of 65. (More cynically they might be defined as those elderly patients whom our colleagues spec… Show more

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“…It is not new-built, but a conversion of a redundant local authority children's home. Although the domus philosophy was originally formulated with the needs of severely demented elderly people and their carers in mind, the imperatives of service planning in this district decreed that this unit would be initially occupied by the 'graduate elderly', that is, long-stay mental hospital patients aged over 65 years who came into continuous psychiatric care before the age of 65 (Holloway, 1991). These people were being moved from various long-stay wards at Cane Hill Hospital, another mental hospital within the region that was due for early closure.…”
Section: Domus Bmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…It is not new-built, but a conversion of a redundant local authority children's home. Although the domus philosophy was originally formulated with the needs of severely demented elderly people and their carers in mind, the imperatives of service planning in this district decreed that this unit would be initially occupied by the 'graduate elderly', that is, long-stay mental hospital patients aged over 65 years who came into continuous psychiatric care before the age of 65 (Holloway, 1991). These people were being moved from various long-stay wards at Cane Hill Hospital, another mental hospital within the region that was due for early closure.…”
Section: Domus Bmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The term 'graduates' was assigned and defined as those who suffered from enduring mental illnesses like schizophrenia and affective illness and had graduated to old age, that is, above 65 years (Arie & Jolley, 1982;Holloway, 1991). We have not used the term 'graduates' for older people with schizophrenia, as it is a blanket term for all enduring mental illnesses and is not commonly used or recognized internationally.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…For the purpose of this communication, the terms 'elderly schizophrenic patients' and 'elderly graduates' are used synonymously and are operationally defined as long-stay schizophrenic patients over the age of 65 years who came into continuous psychiatric contact well before that age (Holloway, 1991).…”
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“…The main objective of the study was to clinically assess long-stay patients in a mental hospital (who, for one reason or another, had been unable to go through the full process of rehabilitation in preparation for discharge into the community) with a view to documenting their clinical morbidity; a secondary objective was to compare them with a younger group of patients living in the same environment. For the purpose of this communication, the terms 'elderly schizophrenic patients' and 'elderly graduates' are used synonymously and are operationally defined as long-stay schizophrenic patients over the age of 65 years who came into continuous psychiatric contact well before that age (Holloway, 1991).…”
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confidence: 99%