Treatment of homebound mentally ill elderly patients: the multidisciplinary psychiatric mobile team.
Authors evaluated the general feasibility of using a multidisciplinary psychiatric mobile team model for homebound elderly patients. Information was collected with a semistructured interview on 235 homebound elderly patient referrals over a 2.5-year period. Ninety-three subjects were accepted into the program; 12.9% of those accepted required psychiatric hospitalization during the follow-up. Maintaining individuals in the community was achieved with intense case management and significant increases in home-care hours. The multidisciplinary team approach appeared to lessen psychiatric disability in homebound mentally ill elderly patients.
Kohn
Robert
R
Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Brown University, Providence, RI 02906, USA. Robert_Kohn@brown.edu
Goldsmith
Erika
E
Sedgwick
Thomas W
TW
D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D018577:Homebound Persons / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy*; D008952:Mobile Health Units; D010348:Patient Care Team