Comprehensive geriatric care should receive nation-wide attention in order to realize its objectives. An analysis of patient problems at the Geriatirc Clinic, Tygerberg Hospital and Goodwood Aftercare Hospital is presented. The training of personnel, with full motivation of the community, to render health services to the aged is discussed.

Across child welfare and disability policy, the intersectionality of being a young person with experiences both services is not well addressed. In line this, growing body international evidence shows gap in level transitional post-care support provided to meet needs this group people leaving care. The present article draws on data from qualitative interview study eight disabled care Norway. How...

OBJECTIVE To compare the clinical outcome and costs of care of psychiatric patients allocated to community multidisciplinary teams or to hospital based care programmes after discharge from inpatient care. DESIGN Randomised controlled trial. SETTING Inner London (Paddington and North Kensington) and outer London (Brent) psychiatric services. SUBJECTS 155 patients with severe mental illness...

  Background: Implementing community-based psychiatric services is one of the priorities of the WHO/EMRO mental health programs. This study presents an aftercare service, as a community based-service, for patients with severe mental illness (SMIs).   Methods : In this randomized controlled clinical trial design, 176 patients, who attended selective hospitals with SMI, were allocated into three ...

Objective: To compare the clinical outcome and costs of care of psychiatric patients allocated to community multidisciplinary teams or to hospital based care programmes after discharge from inpatient care. Design: Randomised controlled trial. Setting: Inner London (Paddington and North Kensington) and outer London (Brent) psychiatric services. Subjects: 155 patients with severe mental illness w...

BACKGROUND There have been claims that community mental health principles leads to the maintenance of better health and functioning in patients and can be more economical for patients with severe and chronic mental disorders. Economic evaluation studies have been used to assess the cost-effectiveness of national health programs, or to propose efficient strategies for health care delivery. AIM...

After closure, municipal solid waste (MSW) landfills must be managed and controlled to avoid adverse effects on human health and the environment (HHE). Aftercare (or post-closure care) can be brought to an end when the authorities consider the landfill to no longer pose a threat to HHE. Different approaches have been suggested for long-term landfill management and evaluation of aftercare comple...

background: implementing community-based psychiatric services is one of the priorities of the who/emro mental health programs. this study presents an aftercare service, as a community based-service, for patients with severe mental illness (smis).   methods : in this randomized controlled clinical trial design, 176 patients, who attended selective hospitals with smi, were allocated into three gr...

ïn the last two decades, the importance of developing strategies that reduce the burden of new onset psychosis on affected persons, their families, and the community has been recognized. this article reviews the literature on first-episode psychosis (fëp) in ïran. ïn the last decade, several studies on fëp have been published in tehran concerning duration of untreated psychosis (düp), pathways ...

BACKGROUND There is strong, internationally confirmed evidence for the short-term effectiveness of multimodal interdisciplinary specific treatment programs for chronic back pain. However, the verification of long-term sustainability of achieved effects is missing so far. For long-term improvement of pain and functional ability high intervention intensity or high volume seems to be necessary (> ...