Psychotherapy with older adult nursing home residents will likely be carried out with two groups of patients: the chronically mentally ill, and the medical rehabilitation patients. A typology of patients with mental illness is described: the mild cognitively impaired and behaviorally disturbed, the
Recreation and sexuality for handicapped and geriatric patients in a long term care hospital
โ Scribed by Margaret M. Wilburn
- Publisher
- Springer US
- Year
- 1979
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 102 KB
- Volume
- 2
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0146-1044
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