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The Role of a Day Hospital in Geriatric Psychiatry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

W. M. Ford Robertson
Affiliation:
Long Grove Hospital, Epsom, and St. Clement's Hospital, London, E.3
Brice Pitt
Affiliation:
St. Clement's Hospital, London, E.3

Extract

The development of Day Hospitals for geriatric patients in this country over the past 15 years has been one means of attempting to relieve the problems arising from an increasing senile population.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1965 

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