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The TAPS project 30 — quality of life for elderly mentally ill patients - a comparison of hospital and community settings
Author(s)	Walter Wills, Julian Leff
Corporate Author	Team for the Assessment of Psychiatric Services (TAPS), Academic Department of Psychiatry, Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine
Journal title	International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 11, no 11, November 1996
Pages	pp 953-963
Keywords	Quality of life ; Patients ; Psychiatric units ; Care homes ; Living in groups in institutions ; Social contacts ; Comparison ; Barnet.
Annotation	In this study comparing quality of life for psychogeriatric patients in Friern Hospital, North London, with that in four community residences, the views of 61 relatives of hospital patients and 49 relatives of community patients were compared. On all the items on which the two groups of relatives differed, greater satisfaction was expressed with the community facilities. Observational studies of patients' activities revealed greater social contact for community patients. These observations confirmed the relatives' perception that community residences provided a less institutional environment than hospital wards. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-970421014 A
Classmark	F:59: LF: LDL: KW: KAB: TOA: 48: 82L4
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