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The future of day care in old age psychiatry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Christopher J. Ball
Christopher J. Ball*
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Guy's Hospital, London SE1 9RT
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In 1961 Shaw & Macmillan claimed that there was no doubt of the value of the day hospital as an “alternative to in-patient care and prophylaxis” for the elderly mentally ill (EMI). Thirty years later the day hospital remains central to many EMI services. During these years little has been done to evaluate this method of service delivery against other models of service provision.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 17 , Issue 7 , July 1993 , pp. 427 - 428
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