title: [The status of elderly females in psychiatry. Results of an empirical study of patients transferred to long-term nursing homes].
abstract: The factors influencing the transfer from the Rheinische Landesklinik - Psychiatrische Universitätsklinik Düsseldorf - to long-term care facilities are examined for 131 psychiatric patients between March 1987 and March 1988. Our data indicate a high probability of transfer for geronto-psychiatric patients especially for elderly women, and a far lower probability of transfer for younger and middle-aged psychiatric patients with chronic disease. The selection criteria for the transfer of female patients over 65 years seem to be - far more so than for males - influenced by structural conditions of the psychiatric hospital. Also, in geronto-psychiatric patients a predominant influence of gender on the selection criteria of long-term care facilities can be observed.
authors: Forschungsstelle für psychiatrische Soziologie, Universität Düsseldorf, Rheinische Landesklinik.
authors: A M
authors: AM
authors: Leimkühler
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003704:Dementia / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D004185:Disability Evaluation; D005260:Female; D005860:Germany, West; D006707:Homes for the Aged / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009735:Nursing Homes / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D010360:Patient Transfer / Q000639:trends*; D012737:Sex Factors
vernacular_title: Die Situation alter Frauen in der Psychiatrie. Ergebnisse einer empirischen Studie an Patienten, die in Dauerwohnheime verlegt wurden.