Psychiatric day hospital treatment of terminally ill patients.
The psychiatric Day Hospital offers a forum for working out bereavement issues of terminally ill patients. Through individual and group psychotherapy, patients and their families are assisted in coping with the issues of death and dying. Coordination of medical, surgical, and psychiatric treatment of dying patients is enhanced by Day Hospital educational and treatment programs which afford continuity of care at the interface area between treatment specialties.
D000328:Adult; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D001293:Attitude to Death; D003631:Day Care, Medical; D006699:Home Care Services; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric; D006787:Hospitals, Veterans; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D008875:Middle Aged; D011613:Psychotherapy; D011615:Psychotherapy, Group; D013727:Terminal Care