The Mental Health System and Older Adults in the 1990s  

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Smyer, Michael A. ; Gatz, Margaret

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: American Psychologist vol. 47 no. 06 (Jun. 1992), page 741-751.
Topik: older adult; mental health

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Trends in mental health services for older adults during the past decade were used to predict salient issues for the current decade. These include overreliance on inpatient treatment, increased use of general hospitals as treatment sites, Inadequate integration with the nursing-home industry, and insufficient mental health referrals from general medical providers, In the decade a/lead, the mental health needs of older adults are unlikely to be an identified focus,' rather the issues with overlap with other priorities Its biomedical research on brain functioning, alternative treatment programs for the chronically-mentally ill, and containing health care costs). Advocates for the elderly will be successful to the extent that they cast aging services within the context of these other con cans.

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