PREVALENCE OF PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS IN METROPOLITAN OLD AGE AND NURSING HOMES *
PREVALENCE OF PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS IN METROPOLITAN OLD AGE AND NURSING HOMES *
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大城市养老院和疗养院精神疾病的患病率*
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发表时间：
1962
影响因子：
6.3
通讯作者：
A. Goldfarb
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作者：
A. Goldfarb
这是1956年在精神卫生部门设立的一个特别办公室在过去三年中开展的一些工作的简要报告。设立这一单位的目的是帮助规划和发展纽约州精神病院内外的改善服务，为那些精神病护理需求未得到承认或未得到完全满足的老年人提供服务。自成立以来，该办公室在四个主要领域开展了工作。首先，我们对养老院、养老院和公立医院进行了调查，特别是对首次入住这些机构时年龄超过的人的特征进行了确定。其次，我们试图收集这些机构以及转介机构、咨询中心和市医院接待室提供的服务的信息。第三，我们开始积累关于精神疾病老年人护理和治疗的参考书目，以供注释和最终出版，同时利用这些文件试图回答感兴趣的机构和个人的问题，特别是在精神卫生部门。第四，也是我们工作中最重要的方面之一，我们作为大都市非营利性社区福利机构和精神卫生部门之间的友好纽带，促进合作努力、服务协调和信息共享，以实现共同盈利的发展。与此同时，我们获得了关于使用或滥用我们的卫生服务以及卫生服务中的差距或重复的第一手经验。此外，我们办事处还制定了对老年人的身心健康进行筛查和分类的方法，并向非营利性社会机构提供咨询服务、讲座和信息，有时甚至提供帮助
This is a brief report of some of the work carried out during the past three years by a special office created in the Department of Mental Hygiene in 1956. This unit was created to help plan and develop improved services in New York State, both within and outside psychiatric hospitals, for aged persons whose need for psychiatric care was either unrecognized or incompletely met. Since its creation the ofice has worked in four major areas. First, we made a survey of old age homes, nursing homes and state hospitals, with especial interest in determining the characteristics of persons more than 64 years old when admitted to these institutions for the first time. Second, we tried to collect information about the services offered by these facilities as well as the referral agencies, counselling centers and city hospital reception wards. Third, we began accumulating a bibliography on the care and treatment of mentally ill aged persons for annotation and eventual publication, and a t the same time used these files in attempting to answer questions of interested agencies and persons, especially in the Department of Mental Hygiene. Fourth, and one of the most important aspects of our work, we served as a friendly link between metropolitan nonprofit community welfare agencies and the Department of Mental Hygiene in facilitating cooperative effort, coordination of services and sharing of information, for mutual profitable development. A t the same time we gained first-hand experience about the use or misuse of, and the gaps or duplications in, our health services. In addition our Office developed methods of rating the mental and physical health of aged persons for screening and classification, and provided consultation service, lectures and information to nonprofit social agencies, and occasionally was even of assistance