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Geriatric Admissions to a Mental Hospital

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

E. Herbert  and
S. Jacobson
E. Herbert
Affiliation:
St. Francis Hospital, Haywards Heath, Sussex
S. Jacobson
Affiliation:
St. Francis Hospital, Haywards Heath, Sussex
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Recently Kay, Beamish and Roth (1964) have shown that there is only a small fraction of old people with psychiatric disorder being cared for either as hospital in-patients or as residents in Homes. Their investigation was carried out in Newcastle-on-Tyne. They pointed out that various other reports concur with the view that medical services at the present time deal only with the visible part of the “iceberg” of mental disorder and handicap.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 112 , Issue 487 , June 1966 , pp. 589 - 594
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1966 

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