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Dependence of schizophrenic patients on elderly relatives

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

Barbara C. Stevens
Barbara C. Stevens
Affiliation:
Medical Research Council Social Psychiatry Unit, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, London
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As part of a survey of the need for rehabilitation services in Camberwell, a representative group of 56 unemployed psychiatric patients were selected from the Camberwell Register during 1968; most of these were chronic schizophrenics, and 29, or just over half of them, were living with their parents or siblings. This paper describes a special analysis made by a medical sociologist into the problems of these 29 patients as perceived by their relatives. Assessment of the patient's handicaps and the burden felt by the family showed a dependence on parents of pensionable age which is an obstacle to rehabilitation. Patients were content, but relatives were dissatisfied and experienced considerable financial burden and symptoms of reactive anxiety and depression. The need for special services is emphasized to help the patient towards a more independent existence when the relative dies.

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Research Article
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Psychological Medicine , Volume 2 , Issue 1 , February 1972 , pp. 17 - 32
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1972

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