BACKGROUND The rate of recognition and treatment of depressed older people in nursing homes is low. Data from the low-level residential care population have not been reported. This study aimed to collect information about the treatment of depression among older persons living in low-level residential care (hostels). METHOD The participants comprised 300 elderly residents from ten low-level re...

PURPOSE To record the views of final year dental hygiene students from the University of Newcastle, Australia about a placement in 17 residential aged care facilities, on the NSW Central Coast. METHODS Final year dental hygiene students undertook a 12 week placement, 1 day per week, in 1 of 17 residential aged care facilities. They were asked to participate in focus group discussions after th...

Improvements in temperance, perspective, and responsibility are a part of typical development of psychosocial maturity during adolescence. The existing literature suggests that the developmental course of psychosocial maturity is influenced by normative variations in social context, but little is known about how atypical contexts, such as incarceration, influence its development. The study inve...

New Look at mental disorder and seeks to shift the emphasis from hospital to domiciliary care. Its aim is to give patients with mental illness the same facilities as patients suffering from physical illness, to make admission to, and discharge from hospital as informal as possible, and to provide care and after care at home or in residential hostels which will compare favourably with similar fa...