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Quality of life in a residential setting

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Ian Leonard
Ian Leonard*
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The David Lewis Centre for Epilepsy, Near Alderley Edge, Cheshire SK9 7UD
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The David Lewis Centre for Epilepsy has approximately 300 adult residents. All have epilepsy, which is often only partly alleviated by available treatments; many have mental handicap or psychiatric illness, adding to their total disability. The Centre's explicit aim of understanding and caring for people with epilepsy implies concern not just for clinical measures such as seizure frequency, but for our residents' quality of life.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 13 , Issue 9 , September 1989 , pp. 492 - 494
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1989

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