DOES HOSPITAL ADMISSION AFFECT DEPENDENCY LEVELS OF ELDERLY PSYCHIATRIC PATIENTS?
✍ Scribed by PETER BRACKENRIDGE; KEN COURTNAY; ARUN JHA; ROBERT LAWRENCE
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 94 KB
- Volume
- 12
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0885-6230
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✦ Synopsis
Objective. To study eect of hospital admission on dependency levels of psychogeriatric patients. Design. A cohort was formed comprising consecutive admissions. This was subdivided into organic and functional cases and the dependency levels of the two groups compared on admission and discharge.
Setting. An acute psychogeriatic ward at a psychiatric hospital near London.
Patients. One hundred consecutive acute elderly psychiatric inpatients.
Measures. The Stockton Geriatric Rating Scale was used to assess dependency levels, the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression and the Mini-Mental State Examination for cognitive impairment.
Results. Patients with functional illness showed a signi®cant reduction in dependency levels compared to organic cases during admission.
Conclusion. Admission to hospital has a signi®cant eect in reducing dependency levels of elderly patients with functional illness.