How to change the representation of psychiatric illness, which often leads to a double stigmatization (old age and madness)? Improving the quality of life of aging patients with severe chronic mental illness in homes for seniors is a great challenge for psychiatric teams in collaboration with ...
Hospital psychiatric staffs can effectively share their expertise with nursing homes. One hospital's psychiatric out-reach program has reduced patient management problems at participating nursing homes, improved patients and staff morale, changed staff attitudes, garnered physician support, and extended serv...
Psychiatric disturbances of aged patients in skilled nursing homes The authors found that 85% of 74 patients supported by Medicaid in two skilled nursing facilities had significant in addition to serious multiple medical i... None - 《American Journal of Psychiatry》 被引量: 112发表: 1976年 A ...
A study of antipsychotic drug use in nursing homes: epidemiologic evidence suggesting misuse. We reviewed 384,326 prescriptions for 5,902 Medicaid patients residing continuously for one year in 173 Tennessee nursing homes. Of these patients, 43 per cent received antipsychotic drugs; 9 per cent were...
Acutely ill patients presenting for admission in two district psychiatric services were randomly allocated to day-hospital or in-patient care. In both services a quarter of all admissions could not be allocated because they were too ill ... ...
Bringing in younger psychiatric patients Primarily because of the deaths caused by the pandemic, many nursing homes now havelots of empty beds. And to put it bluntly, they need money to survive. The National Health Care Association and National Center for Assisted Living estimate the U.S. long...
Residential homes for the elderly are expected to play an important role in the future as places for the social rehabilitation of inpatients with chronic schizophrenia in psychiatric hospitals. A study was performed to investigate the st... N Matsuzawa - Seishin shinkeigaku zasshi = Psychiatria et...
The individuals admitted to a new AIDS nursing home were younger, more medically and psychiatrically ill, on more complex medical regimens, and had a higher prevalence of psychiatric disorders than those in nursing homes for older persons. The average age of the AIDS nursing home patients was 41...
The psychological effects on nursing staff of administering physical restraint in a secure psychiatric hospital: 'When I go home, it's then that I think ab... The study examines the experiences of physical restraint procedures reported by nursing staff in a secure mental health service. Interview...
Patients diagnosed with serious mental illness (SMI) who qualify for nursing home placement tend to require high levels of both psychiatric and nursing care. However, it is unknown whether they are equally likely to be admitted to nursing homes with adequate quality of care compared with other p...