[Medical data from a gerontological field-study and its value with regard to the conception of a psychogeriatric service (author's transl)].
1114 people were investigated by a sociological interview. A representative subgroup got a medical check-up mostly by psychiatrists, a few of them by the family doctors. It revealed a refusal-group of 28% out of 625 persons. Our medical data did not confirm the rate of morbidity from 10 to 20% of the elderly. Whereas the sociological date of the refusal-group maybe identify the expected crisis-population so that we did not gain enough information for planning a psychogeriatric service by this field-study.
D000368:Aged; D003625:Data Collection; D005852:Geriatric Psychiatry; D006285:Health Planning; D006801:Humans; D008605:Mental Health Services
Medizinische Untersuchungsergebnisse einer gerontologischen Feldstudie und deren Wertigkeit hinsichtlich der Konzeption einer gerontopsychiatrischen Behandlungseinrichtung.