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Criteria for Admission of the Elderly to Geriatric and Psychiatric Units

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

Cecil B. Kedd
Cecil B. Kedd*
Affiliation:
Purdysburn Hospital, Belfast
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Advances in hospital care of the elderly have led to an urgent demand on these services, and Cosin (2) has pointed out that it has often been necessary to provide them before their most practical uses have been evaluated. As Townsend (11) observes, some beds are occupied by patients who should have been in a different hospital unit more fitting to their particular type of disability.

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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 108 , Issue 452 , January 1962 , pp. 68 - 74
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1962 

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