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| Psychiatric home care for the elderly | | Author(s) | C J Farran, S L Horton-Deutsch, R Fiedler |
| Journal title | Home Health Care Services Quarterly, vol 16, nos 1/2, 1997 |
| Pages | pp 77-92 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Depression ; Domiciliary services ; Family care ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | There is a paucity of research on home care for older people with depression and their caregivers. This study summarised descriptive information concerning an existing psychiatric home care service in order to lay the foundations for more sophisticated studies of older depressed persons who receive this type of long-term care. Using existing medical record data, the demographic and clinical characteristics of older patients using a multi-site home health care service are summarised, including functional and psychiatric status, length of stay, caregiver availability, scope of multidisciplinary interventions provided, and reasons for discharge. The authors conclude that prospective research on older people receiving psychiatric home care is needed in the future. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-971209206 A |
| Classmark | ENR: N: P6:SJ: 7T |
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