[An uncommon psychiatric patient history: "from below": 60 years in clinic and nursing home].
This is the case of a patient who received psychiatric treatment for a period of over 60 years. For the most part he received drug treatment, initially also involving electroshock therapy combined with pyretotherapy. During the last 20 years he lived (and worked) in a psychiatric home with an adjoining agricultural farm. He died at the age of 94.
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CA Klinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie, Landeshauptstadt Hannover, Langenhagen.
D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D003688:Deinstitutionalization; D006801:Humans; D008134:Long-Term Care; D008297:Male; D010343:Patient Admission; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D012759:Sheltered Workshops; D012917:Social Adjustment