Introducing psychiatric care into nursing homes.
A consultation-liaison psychiatry program in a teaching nursing home helped implement six guiding principles including: make the patient human to the staff; assume no behavior is random; look for depression of psychosis as a source of problems; reduce medications and medication doses; create a more homelike environment; and use conditions in which learning still occurs in dementia.
Sakauye
K M
KM
LSU Medical Center, New Orleans.
Camp
C J
CJ
D000368:Aged; D003253:Consultants; D005852:Geriatric Psychiatry; D006707:Homes for the Aged / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006784:Hospitals, Teaching; D006801:Humans; D008145:Louisiana; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D008605:Mental Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009735:Nursing Homes / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010564:Personnel, Hospital / Q000193:education; D016730:Program Development