Mental Hospitals and Community Care

Mental Subnormality and Community Care

This is the second Broadsheet arising out of the three-year study of community mental health services being carried on by P.E.P. under the direction of Dr. F. M. Martin, Edinburgh University. It surveys the present situation in regard to mental subnormality in four sections?Legal Changes, Epidemiology, Local Authority and Hospital Services, and Research?the whole constituting a valuable summing...

Improving mental health care in general hospitals.

The mental health needs of older people being cared for within general hospitals and other acute healthcare settings has been specifically identified as a priority for improvement. Yet in reality little has changed. The Department of Health (DH) (2006) has highlighted how many challenges still exist in developing effective integrated care for this patient group and continues to respond with fur...

Early Rehabilitative Care in Community Hospitals: Effect

Early Rehabilitative Care in Community Hospitals: Effect on Quality of Survivorship Following a Stroke • The effect of early institution of rehabilitative care on quality of survivorship was investigated in 483 patients with their first cerebral infarction. Impaired consciousness at onset adversely affects survivorship and recovery of motor strength. Early institution of rehabilitation was asso...

Mental Retardation, Poverty and Community Based Rehabilitation

A person with moderate mental retardation would, in a western country, be "diagnosed" early on in life. Consequently, such a child is likely to be sent for special education. Given the high level of job requirements, such a person is unlikely to be employed in the open market later in life. Mental retardation is one of the most frequent disabilities in most studies, mental retardation is found ...

Mental health care in the community.