"Asset stripping" the declining mental hospital.
A psychogeriatric day hospital was developed from a long-stay back ward of a large mental hospital whose population of patients had decreased by half. Women in the 70-80 age group with varying degrees of dementia benefited most from such facilities. In view of the current cut-back in Government spending one of the greatest assets in providing a comprehensive service for the elderly mentally infirm may well be found in the declining mental hospital.
D000368:Aged; D003631:Day Care, Medical; D005260:Female; D005852:Geriatric Psychiatry / Q000379:methods*; D006076:Government; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D009788:Occupational Therapy; D010045:Outpatients; D013222:State Medicine / Q000639:trends; D006113:United Kingdom