Psychiatric consultation to a continuing care retirement community.
Life care communities provide a continuum of residential services to the elderly. This report describes the provision of on-site psychiatric consultations to 82 individuals residing in one such community. Dementia and major depression were the most common diagnoses made.
Rabins
P V
PV
John Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD.
Storer
D J
DJ
Lawrence
M P
MP
D000368:Aged; D005852:Geriatric Psychiatry; D016852:Housing for the Elderly; D006801:Humans