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A study of long-attending psychiatric day-patients and the services provided for them

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

I. G. Pryce ,
C. A. Baughan ,
T. D. O. Jenkins  and
B. Venkatesan
I. G. Pryce*
Affiliation:
Tegfan Day-Hospital, Whitchurch Hospital, Whitchurch, Cardiff
C. A. Baughan
Affiliation:
Tegfan Day-Hospital, Whitchurch Hospital, Whitchurch, Cardiff
T. D. O. Jenkins
Affiliation:
Tegfan Day-Hospital, Whitchurch Hospital, Whitchurch, Cardiff
B. Venkatesan
Affiliation:
Tegfan Day-Hospital, Whitchurch Hospital, Whitchurch, Cardiff
*
1Address for correspondence: Dr I. G. Pryce, Whitchurch Hospital, Whitchurch, Cardiff CF4 7XB.
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Synopsis

A year's follow-up study of day-hospital long-attenders underlined doubts as to the adequacy of service provision in urban areas of England and Wales for the increasing numbers of chronic psychiatric patients living in the community. Very few of the 82 men and 53 women were married or capable of employment, and both psychiatric and physical morbidity were high; 2 young men committed suicide and 3 elderly men died within a year of discharge. Over the age of 45 men tended to be socially isolated and over the age of 60 they were also physically ill; a number probably required better residential care. Few women under 45 attended, possibly because the services offered were unacceptable.

Type
Research Article
Information
Psychological Medicine , Volume 13 , Issue 4 , November 1983 , pp. 875 - 884
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1983

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