II. Voluntary Community Treatment Can Prevent Admissions
| Autor: | James V. Lowry, Alfred M. Calais |
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| Rok vydání: | 1967 |
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| Zdroj: | Psychiatric Services. 18:236-237 |
| ISSN: | 1557-9700 1075-2730 |
| DOI: | 10.1176/ps.18.8.236 |
| Popis: | (50) then later proved their usefulness in other settings. For example, the placement of aged mental patients in community nursing homes was originated in, and is for the most part still done by, public mental hospitals. However, the procedures of screening elderly potential mental hospital patients before treatment and of finding alternative care for many, such as nursing home placement, were accomplished by a community agency, the Geriatric Screening Project in San Francisco, with such superior results that the program received one of the 1966 Amencan Psychiatric Association Achievement Awards. Thus the state mental hospital must continue to seek ways of returning its patients to the community and must develop means of effecting their treatment there. It should not become merely a haven for the homeless, a chronic disease hospital, a nursing home, on a prison. Any long-range compromise of its active treatment mission negates the zeal of its staff and dilutes its slender resources, which are needed to carry out active therapy. In the end, such a compromised hospital becomes a human warehouse. The past ten years have clearly demonstrated that, for the most part, state mental hospitals are moving steadily toward assuming an active treatment rather than a custodial role. This accounts for the seeming paradox of decreasing residential state mental hospital populations side by side with rising admissions. |
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