Psychiatric‐medical Management

Opinions about Geriatric Patients in Public Mental Hospitals: Administrators of 269 Public Mental Hospitals and 53 Officials of State or Territorial Mental Hygiene Agencies Were Surveyed to Ascertain Their Opinions about the Potential for Rehabilitation of Older Patients

“…Through these clinic services, older patients often may achieve such marked improvement that many can avoid protracted new hospitalization or rehospitalizations (72)(73)(74). Day hospital programs which provide mixed medical and psychiatric supervision also report maintenance of favorable results, especially when they are combined with home visits and family conferences with therapists and social workers (75).…”