Old People and Mental Hospitals

Helping Older People Who Have Been in Mental Hospitals

1313 E. 60th Street, Chicago 37, Illinois. 30 cents. Although based on American experience, this brief pamphlet should be of interest to all workers concerned about the increasing number of senile patients in our mental hospitals. It is a report on the provision of specialized boarding home care for patients from the state hospitals of North Carolina, many "having been admitted there when menta...

Hospitals and People

Elizabeth Barnes' starting-point was material from discussions by W.H.O. study-groups; the expert, in other words, interpreting the patient. Anne McGhee built up her picture of the patient by collating evidence from a typical acute ward. In my own study, the author and the patient were combined, with no claim to general validity beyond the shared experiences of fellow ward-companions. Dr. Cartw...

A survey of mental hospitals and mental deficiency institutions in the Birmingham region. I. Mental hospitals.

The problem of providing adequate care and treatment for patients suffering from mental disorder has become more acute in recent years for many reasons, not least amongst them being the increased numbers and longevity of the population in conjunction with their greater willingness to seek early advice and treatment. As a result, mental hospitals are faced with the dilemma of increasing their ad...

Mental Hospitals at Work

Efficiency of Mental Hospitals.

Civilized communities spend much of their resources on the care of the sick. In present-day Britain nearly half the hospital beds are occupied by the mentally ill, so that even a small improvement in the treatment of these patients will be profitable, both in alleviating suffering and in reducing the burden on the community. In the work reported here, we have adopted certain criteria by which t...