Boarding-Out Elderly Psychiatric Patients
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ANY old people spend the last years of their lives in a mental Hospital; not due to illness, but because ?. ey have nowhere else to live. Some nave grown old within the institution; } hers, admitted when elderly, have ,0st their niche in society so that recovery does not result in discharge, psmall number may be transferred local authority or private old People's homes, but this is only an ^change of one institution for another,
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