What happens to homeless mentally ill people? Follow up of residents of Oxford hostels for the homeless.

[10-year follow-up study of mortality among users of hostels for homeless people in Copenhagen].

OBJECTIVES To investigate mortality among users of hostels for homeless people in Copenhagen, and to identify predictors of death such as conditions during upbringing, mental illness, and misuse of alcohol and drugs. DESIGN Register based follow up study. SETTING Two hostels for homeless people in Copenhagen, Denmark PARTICIPANTS 579 people who stayed in one hostel in Copenhagen in 1991, ...

Involuntary treatment for the homeless mentally ill.

Collected and neglected: are Oxford hostels for the homeless filling up with disabled psychiatric patients?

OBJECTIVE To assess the severity of psychiatric symptoms among residents of hostels for homeless people. DESIGN Survey of residents in two hostels in Oxford, comprising three weeks of background fieldwork, a demographic questionnaire, and rating behaviour over two weeks with a behavioural rating scale (REHAB) and mental state with the brief psychiatric rating scale. SETTING Two hostels for ...

Portable medical record for the homeless mentally ill.

the outcome of the Rh prophylaxis programme , the time may be right to investigate circumstances leading to cases of infants affected by Rh haemolytic disease rather than deaths. This is especially important if the death rate is falling while new cases are still occurring at the same rate. Computerised blood transfusion centres could provide information to interested clinicians about new cases ...

The mentally ill homeless: evolving involuntary commitment issues.